I was messing about with IrishBlogs the other week and I didn't get round to setting up a "proper" backend, so it was quite "open" to attack. The amount of comment spam that the blog has attracted in its short lifespan is truly impressive, though obviously for all the wrong reasons. … [Read more...] about Comment Spam – accidental experiments
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Death of MySql
I killed MySQL this morning when I was doing an upgrade Note to self: Remember to restart the damned thing after running apt-get upgrade … [Read more...] about Death of MySql
Bad Anti-spam measures
I am getting really tired of other people's anti-spam measures. I got the following from a mail server this morning (sanitised to protect the innocent): The address to which the message has not yet been delivered is: xx@xxxx.com Delay reason: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:: host mail.xxxxx.com xx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: 451-Thank you for emailing xxx, due to our Anti-Spam … [Read more...] about Bad Anti-spam measures
Losing a domain?
How on earth can a registrar lose a domain? I got this from a well-known ICANN registrar today: The domain is in our system as a 'lost name'. Please let me know which account you would like the domain pushed to and the registrant information that you would like on the domain. So it was like Little Bo Peep losing her sheep?? How on earth can you "lose" a domain? … [Read more...] about Losing a domain?
DNSBLs in Postfix
A few weeks ago I started doing some work on geo specific filtering, where email is treated very differently depending on the sending IP. Since implementing this we have been very happy with the results. I also run a UML for my personal usage and for a couple of my pet projects. It's a nice place to try things out. Needless to say the domains hosted on it do get sent a lot of … [Read more...] about DNSBLs in Postfix