Subj : Last couple of days with my binkp mailer..
To : mark lewis
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Thu Sep 30 2010 09:46 am
Hi Mark,
>> Yeah, it's called BaiduSearch or BaiduBot; I've seen both of them in
>> my logs before.
>> 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 lik
> the messages, files and games... they are robots.txt friendly...
Well, that's not exactly the problem.. the content is so not 'private' in other
words.. but when they tie up my bbbs web/telnet/binkp nodes, 'real fido people'
can't connect.. that is a drag <g>
>> 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??
Yes, that's right, but it's not that I don't allow any more than 7, it's
because the way bbbs works is you register the number of nodes you want for the
bbbs daemons.. so I have 7 nodes registered... that's 1 phone-modem node, 6
http instances, 6 telnet nodes, 6 binkp nodes, etc. I also run BinkD
stand-alone mailer on the standard binkp port to pick up more binkp connections
since I know the bbbs binkp nodes get a bit busy with the number of downlinks
here <g>. BBBS's binkp daemon runs on port 24555.
I guess what really bugged me was that these spiders were hitting all the ports
here.. not just 80 :( I mean, what could a spider get out of attemping
repeated connections to my binkp port on 24555?? <bg>
Great thing this week: when I contacted Kim Heino (he's the author of bbbs)
about my dead motherboard and all that, etc., (he uses ftp to connect so we
needed to set that up on the main ftp server), he sent me a beta 64 bit version
of BBBS.. Really cool :) It's running really well.
>> 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...
Understand.. these kinds of things take time, but we're hoping.
