If I try to go to the root domain of any of the trackback spam I've been getting in the last couple of months (and I've been getting a lot), I get redirected to dyndns.org:
"Dynamic Network Services, Inc. is a leading provider of Domain Name Services (DNS). We provide full managed DNS hosting, Dynamic DNS, Static DNS, web redirection, e-mail, and domain registration services. Maintaining 100.000% DNS uptime with over a million users, we offer the flexibility, support, and service to ensure a strong and reliable presence on the Internet for you or your business."
Could we somehow ban trackbacks to any sites hosted by dyndns.org?
Posted by David Boxenhorn at May 4, 2005 09:08 AMI don't know of any way to do this. Okay, that's not exactly true. It would be possible to write a script that resolved every attempted url to its DNS source and matched that against a blackhole list. I mean I don't know of any way to do this simply or easily and it's definitely out of the range of what Blacklist is capable of.
:-(
Posted by Jim at May 5, 2005 01:54 PMIt would be possible to write a script that resolved every attempted url to its DNS source and matched that against a blackhole list.
As I understand it, that's not a hard thing to do, for people who know how to do such things. It wouldn't be too expensive either, in fact it would save work for the server as "real" trackbacks are fairly rare, and it would certainly be less expensive to reject a trackback than to let it through.
Posted by David Boxenhorn at May 5, 2005 03:08 PM