Subj : Busy Nodes?
To   : Jeff Smith
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Sun Apr 14 2019 12:31 pm

Hi Jeff,

> Lately I have been getting "400 Sorry, no more free nodes. Try again later"
>rather frequently from BBBS. I currently run the 22 node version of BBBS. I am
>thinking I am just getting spambot'ed. Although, (It may not be  related) I di
> perform a recent BBBS upgrade. Short of restarting BBBS, is there a way to
> clear the nodes (I.E delete node busy files) without the necessity to restart
> BBBS?

Is it from someone like Yandex that fills up your nodes?  That started 
happening here.. so I use this line to keep them off the bbs nodes:

iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m string --string "block-me.com" --algo kmp -j 
REJECT

That is all one line, and of course you change "block-me.com" to the name of 
the site that is nailing your system... works well here.  It returns "port 
unreachable" to the bot...  You should see the site name somewhere in your 
main/inet.log ... that's how I found yandex.

> I am using iptables to manage inbound connections and have for some time now.
> The free nodes issue has just been a recent occurrence I.E., the last couple
> three weeks. In checking I don't see a sudden increase in IP activity.
>I have had four new BBS users create accounts in the last week. Something I am
> always happy to see. :-)

New users is always very neat :)

Take care,
Janis

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