I feel guilty for even posting after that last post (we're all thinking about you Mikey).
Is anyone else getting new, enormous piles of trackback spam? Pixy, is one of the pets asleep at the wheel?
And worse, when I try and blacklist them, I get
An error occurred:
mkdir /home/pixymisa: Permission denied at lib/MT/FileMgr/Local.pm line 104jayallen::Blacklist=HASH(0x813e228) Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 2957.
jayallen::Blacklist=HASH(0x813e228) Use of uninitialized value in hash element at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 2959.
jayallen::Blacklist=HASH(0x813e228) Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 2963.
jayallen::Blacklist=HASH(0x813e228) Use of uninitialized value in hash element at extlib/jayallen/Blacklist.pm line 2965.MT-Blacklist Version 1.6.5
Script execution time: 21 seconds
Thanks for the help!
Posted by Ogre at January 16, 2006 12:38 PM | TrackBackWeird. I got about 20 overnight and have seen 5 or 6 in the past 3 hours or so.
Posted by Ogre at January 16, 2006 01:57 PMI received three TB spams overnight. Not the volume you are receiving, but never the less, spam.
SR
Posted by Sacramento Republicrat at January 16, 2006 03:59 PMI'll check it out. My trackback filter had blacklisted most of the universe, which meant no spam, but no trackbacks either. I fixed that yesterday, but...
Is most of the spam coming from Blogspot by any chance?
Posted by Pixy Misa at January 16, 2006 10:28 PMIt's from all over...oh wait, no it's not:
IP Address: 85.255.114.131
IP Address: 85.255.114.134
IP Address: 85.255.114.130
IP Address: 85.255.113.157
IP Address: 85.255.114.133
I guess I was mostly troubled by the error I got when I tried to blacklist them myself.
Posted by Ogre at January 16, 2006 10:49 PMI think I worked out that error - it's a holdover from the configuration I set up on the old server.
It should be fixed now.
Posted by Pixy Misa at January 17, 2006 05:20 AMUmmm...it's worse now. Much worse.
40 trackback spams in the last 5 hours -- but at least I can BlackList 'em now, thanks Pixy!
IP Address: 195.39.170.102
IP Address: 85.255.114.132
IP Address: 85.255.114.132
IP Address: 85.255.114.133
IP Address: 195.39.170.102
IP Address: 195.39.170.102
IP Address: 85.255.113.156
IP Address: 195.39.170.102
I take back that "nope". I'm getting a steady trickle of the bastards too.
Posted by Jim at January 17, 2006 12:53 PMI blacklisted about 50 this morning, so maybe it will slow down.
Posted by Ogre at January 17, 2006 12:56 PMI'll see of I can work out what's going on. We have blocked 32,000 trackback spams in the last 36 hours, so it's definitely working, but more spam is getting through than usual. We're blocking 99%, but before we were blocking 99.8%. (That is, before it went wonky and started blocking 99.99%...)
Posted by Pixy Misa at January 18, 2006 02:09 AM