Subj : Last couple of days with my binkp mailer.. To : Janis Kracht From : mark lewis Date : Thu Sep 30 2010 06:18 pm >> Wow Baidubot is surely hitting on BBBS' webserver over here :( Oh >> well.. off to inet.bbb to get rid of them haha > you could just deny them access to those links in BBBS that lead to > places like the messages, files and games... they are robots.txt > friendly... JK> Well, that's not exactly the problem.. the content is so not JK> 'private' in other words.. but when they tie up my bbbs JK> web/telnet/binkp nodes, 'real fido people' can't connect.. that is JK> a drag yeah, i can see that with a server that has limited handlers allowed... but the idea was to limit what they have access to so they're in and out as fast as possible ;) >> I mean, I really don't mind if they hit the main web server here.. >> but bbbs is limited to only those 7 nodes. > i assume by that you mean that it is similar to apache in that > there's seven HTTP handlers that are allowed to run and you don't > allow any more than that?? JK> Yes, that's right, but it's not that I don't allow any more than 7, JK> it's because the way bbbs works is you register the number of nodes JK> you want for the bbbs daemons.. so I have 7 nodes registered... JK> that's 1 phone-modem node, 6 http instances, 6 telnet nodes, 6 JK> binkp nodes, etc. yup... pretty much the same idea... close enough for the analogy ;) JK> I also run BinkD stand-alone mailer on the standard binkp port to JK> pick up more binkp connections since I know the bbbs binkp nodes JK> get a bit busy with the number of downlinks here . BBBS's JK> binkp daemon runs on port 24555. i'd really hate it if the bots started hitting the telnet and binkd stuff... i think that google does the http and ftp stuff now... i know i've seen references to it in my ftp logs somewhere... JK> I guess what really bugged me was that these spiders were hitting JK> all the ports here.. not just 80 :( I mean, what could a spider JK> get out of attemping repeated connections to my binkp port on JK> 24555?? trying to connect to a web server that it thinks is running there... if it is doing that, lodge a complaint and/or block it at the perimeter and don't let it in at all ;) depending on the methods, it could be blocked at the perimeter for all ports except for 80 :P JK> Great thing this week: when I contacted Kim Heino (he's the JK> author of bbbs) about my dead motherboard and all that, etc., (he JK> uses ftp to connect so we needed to set that up on the main ftp JK> server), he sent me a beta 64 bit version of BBBS.. Really cool :) JK> It's running really well. i saw reference to you running 64bit earlier... that's a GoodThing ;) >> That's great! It'd be nice to see Z6 up and running again. >> Yeah really :) He's got some friends who'll be coming in, and if >> we count the z6 folks that we've got listed in Z3 right now, it >> should make a good basis for reinstating that zone. > that might be a good thing... especially considering the reasons why > Z6 went away last time it was operational... JK> Understand.. these kinds of things take time, but we're hoping. word up! :P )\/(ark * Origin: (1:3634/12) .