This is a discussion on Badly Behaved Spiders / Bots / Automated Scripts within the Server / Technical Administration Tips and Queries forums, part of the Webmaster Help category; Over the last few weeks a couple of servers running forums and other dynamic content have been getting slammed by ...
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| Over the last few weeks a couple of servers running forums and other dynamic content have been getting slammed by some form of spider or bot. It's really annoying! Has anyone else seen anything similar? |
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| As a matter of interest, did this start around the 10th August? I run a couple of small forums on Enniskerry - Gateway to the Garden of Ireland and Jack and Jill Childrens Foundation using SMF [I switched from phpBB because of hacking attempts]. Since the 10th I have been plagued with attempted postings for porn sites, dubious medical sites and the like. Most of the postings are coming from Russia [boom.ru, bk.ru, list.ru etc etc] and Egypt [gawab.com]. Every morning there is a new clutch of non-authenticated 'new members' which have to be cleared out and a new series of bans inserted. |
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| They're not actually posting anything.. I keep seeing them in logs.. On my own blog I'm using a script to block bad requests, so they just create a lot of log traffic, but they have caused slightly more serious issues on a couple of other sites by opening up so many requests to the forum at once that the default MySQL settings are no longer enough ... |
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| Didn't one of my sites crashed few weeks ago twice cause something like this?
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| I wonder would it be possible to mod the Bad Behaviour script for use on forums to stop bad requests?
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| But would I be right in saying that this all started around the 10th? Life was peaceful up to then. Now it's a pain in the *ss. Thay rarely do any damage as I have so many filters in place - it's just the extra time involved. Personally I would happily castrate the lot of them with a rusty [blunt] pair of garden shears |
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Even if you do use it though you still have to process the requests. Tying it in with iptables would be a better solution |
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| I use phpbb and I have been having a ton of list.ru registrations. I installed a little script that rejects any user trying to supply a website address during registration. Human visitors don't have the option to enter this when signing up. So if it is trying to be entered it is definitely a bot. I have not seen as many spam registrations since.
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| how do you filtered websites addresses from the textarea submitted? Are you using regex? |
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| Nothing as complex as that louie, the mod I used is here phpBB.com :: View topic - [2.0.19] Easy BotStopper |
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