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OPENSTEP
The One
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Joined: May 25, 2003
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Location: Santa Barbara, CA

PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:43 pm    Post subject:

No content actually winds up getting lost as there are daily database backups. It is always possible to go back into the earlier backups and restore anything that gets accidentally nuked.

I don't think this one's really major enough to do that though since the Unicode encoding stuff is documented in the wiki Smile

ed
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sardisson
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:41 am    Post subject:

Nothing like spammers posting *in* the forum spam thread! Smile

IP was 194.44.198.45.

Smokey

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sardisson
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:02 am    Post subject:

sardisson wrote:
Nothing like spammers posting *in* the forum spam thread! Smile

IP was 194.44.198.45.


That IP just posted another spam (again a Guest). It has a real-sounding hostname (Jazz.franko.lviv.ua) so I think it's safe to ban.

Er, actually, that's a university subdomain.

Evil Ukrainians Smile

Edit: That same IP just spammed this very thread again! Stupid, stupid.

Smokey

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ovvldc
Captain Naiobi


Joined: Sep 13, 2004
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Location: Zürich, CH

PostPosted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:26 am    Post subject:

I just threw out an unsavory off-topic message (my first!).
Sending IP was 203.116.214.2

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OPENSTEP
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:59 am    Post subject:

Let me know if any of the IPs start getting to be really egregious. Thus far I've been doing IP blocking mostly on the server proper. There are a couple of IP ranges in Japan and Brazil that are blocked out due to DDoS or password attacks on the server. There are also a number of rules for working around known phpbb worms (the ones from last xmas). I can IP ban blocks that have lots of known spammers.

While I don't personally have time to do it, I also have the full server logs from trinity should anyone care to start analyzing them. Beware, they're large Smile

ed
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LemonAid
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Joined: Nov 21, 2005
Posts: 1285
Location: Witless Protection Program

PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:45 am    Post subject:

OPENSTEP wrote:
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While I don't personally have time to do it, I also have the full server logs from trinity should anyone care to start analyzing them. Beware, they're large Smile

ed

Ed, I know that you are working hard on many things but I just read your post about analyzing the trinity server logs. I have been using the application Analog.exe from The most popular logfile analyser in the world. It's free and Works very well. I use it at work to analyze several Windoze IIS web server logs. Once I got the config file the way I wanted it was great for finding problems / errors / DDOS attacks and such. Evil or Very Mad
Maybe someone could use this to analyze your log files. I work with two weeks of data when I need to home in on details.

Philip (always looking for tools to make life easier Wink )
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OPENSTEP
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:23 pm    Post subject:

Intriguing. I have hundreds of megabytes of log files to send to you, if you're interested. I examine them only for spiders/crawlers and for tracker spam.

PM me and they're yours. For me they're just sitting on CDs rotting away Very Happy

ed
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LemonAid
The Anomaly


Joined: Nov 21, 2005
Posts: 1285
Location: Witless Protection Program

PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:03 pm    Post subject:

OPENSTEP wrote:
Intriguing. I have hundreds of megabytes of log files to send to you, if you're interested. I examine them only for spiders/crawlers and for tracker spam.

PM me and they're yours. For me they're just sitting on CDs rotting away Very Happy
ed

Questions
1. Do you happen to know what the Log file format is?
2. Can you PM / email me a short sample of a file -
Header lines and the first 50-100 lines of data??

I just had a job ... re-assignment (Not fired, just got the fired folks work to do Crying or Very sad ) and my time is limited.

If I can figure out what the data format is, maybe I can get some CDs from you.

Philip (has to be careful when he makes suggestions, it sounds like volunteering Wink )
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OPENSTEP
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:07 pm    Post subject:

Can e-mail samples n/p. I don't have time to do data mining on trinity's logfiles. Any particular timeframe interest you? Major release vs. minor release vs. whatever?

ed
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sardisson
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:44 am    Post subject:

Spam's been on the upswing lately...I've deleted 1-2/day for about the last week just myself. I've been keeping IPs for comparison purposes, if decide to start banning random IPs.

Keep your eyes peeled, mod team Wink

Smokey

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jjmckenzie51
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Joined: Apr 01, 2005
Posts: 1055
Location: Southeastern Arizona

PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:21 am    Post subject:

sardisson wrote:
Spam's been on the upswing lately...I've deleted 1-2/day for about the last week just myself. I've been keeping IPs for comparison purposes, if decide to start banning random IPs.

Keep your eyes peeled, mod team Wink


Since I'm in a weird mood: Ouch, it hurts when I peel my eyes.

<serious>

You must be so good at catching them, I don't. I've only seen one message in the last few weeks, and I got rid of it.

</serious>

James
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OPENSTEP
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:46 am    Post subject:

I think spam also increases with the relevance of the site...trinity's getting linked to a little bit more after the RSS feed was added as it's on some news aggregators and the like.

Presently the spam prevention stuff is using a fixed length delay prior to posting. The next step will be to add in one of those silly human only verification things like type the numbers you see in the picture or solve this equation. I can start doing some research into that Smile

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sardisson
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:18 am    Post subject:

OPENSTEP wrote:
The next step will be to add in one of those silly human only verification things like type the numbers you see in the picture or solve this equation. I can start doing some research into that Smile

I think the latest version of phpBB 2.x has a module for the "human verification"--I remember seeing something about it when I did a security update, but the installation I maintain doesn't allow guest posting, so I don't know for sure--not sure how hard it would be to graft onto the phpBB-nuke combo here.

Smokey

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OPENSTEP
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:54 am    Post subject:

Usually grafting that stuff in isn't that bad since the verification stuff doesn't actually affect the database proper. It needs some function tweaking and the like, but shouldn't be that horrid. I backport most all of the security fixes, so I don't think it'll be a problem.

Thus far only thing I can think of would perhaps be language issues for non-English speaking posters? Hopefully the numerical verification is a bit more common now so the "please type the numbers you see below" might be a bit more unnecessary to have translated?

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ovvldc
Captain Naiobi


Joined: Sep 13, 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:57 am    Post subject:

I just threw out a porn ad posted by a guest from IP 67.183.21.16
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