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 <g>
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 <g>. 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?? <bg>
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<tm> ;)
>> 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.
