Massive amounts of comment spam coming in right now - several thousand a minute. Busy upgrading Fluffy's armament. Back soon.
Ugh. Seriously ugh. We're talking over a hundred comments a second here.
Update: New super doom-Fluffy installed. We'll see how we go with that.
Update update: 75,000 80,000 85,000 spams from a single source in under 90 minutes. It would have been more than that except that the server ground to a halt under the load. It's sped up significantly now that it's all being blocked immediately.
Update update update: Out of 90,000 95,000 spams, four actually got through. Congrats to Ted, Linda, Daniel and Lawren, who won the prize. :)
Update^4: 100,000! It's now 104 minutes since the flood started
Update^5: Looks like it's leveled off at a steady 1500 spams a minute. I wonder how long they'll keep up this futile exercise?
Update^6: Just past the two hour mark and it seems to have stopped. 123,111 spam attempts, four of which got through, for a success rate of 0.00324%. I shall now delete those four spams... And done.
Posted by Pixy Misa at October 29, 2005 09:50 AM | TrackBackPixy and Fluffy, making the citizens of Gotham City jealous since 2002.
Posted by Ted at October 30, 2005 01:53 AMI love Fluffy, but is there much that we can do to prevent having to use Fluffy in the first place? Can you have those spams returned to sender or something?
Posted by Simon at October 30, 2005 01:59 PMWell, this was comment spam, and we could block that using Captchas or preview-before-post or some similar trick. A bit of a bother to implement across 190 blogs, but doable.
Trackback spam is harder to do anything about. IP throttling helps, but the seem to be using zombie networks a lot these days.
Posted by Pixy Misa at October 30, 2005 10:57 PM