Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: GrabPERF
5 Aug 2005Well, due to the paranoid 1d10ts who run my work network, I can’t test the remote script from my work linux machine. I have one beta tester and need some others to ensure that it works.
Again, what you need on your linux machine:
cURL (compiled from source or with the devel packages)
MySQL client and devel packages
Time::CTime [...]
In: GrabPERF
4 Aug 2005I am looking to implement some new GrabPERF features in the next few days (I still have some vacation left!), and I need some volunteers to help me out.
WHAT YOU NEED
A linux machine with the MySQL and cURL development libraries installed
A static IP address (even a static external NAT IP is ok)
The ability to do [...]
In: smp
1 Jul 2005Tried to set up Verizon DSL last night. Didn’t work; rotating IP addresses; a variety of line related issues. Cancelled the service this morning.
Sorry for any interruptions you may have encountered last night.
In: smp
11 Jun 2005Dave Winer: Expunged. Want to know when and who?
With Dave
Without Dave
If the timestamps on Wikipedia are correct, around 06:00 GMT May 23, 2005, Dave Winer was expunged from the history of Podcasting.
Offending IP address: 68.174.103.8. A RoadRunner IP.
Technorati: Podcasting, Dave Winer, Wikipedia
In: smp
5 May 2005GrabIP is back up. YAY!
However, I have limited the number of queries per IP address per 24-hour period to 5. BOO!
Subscription service coming soon…unlimited lookups! YAY!
In: smp
4 May 2005I use StatCounter to track the visits to a few of my Web sites. Lately I have discovered a number of visitors that are logged as coming from Private IP Space addresses (10.0.0.0/8, etc.).
I know what’s happening here. These folks are behind proxy servers. When they request the StatCounter object, it is actually requested from [...]
In: smp
2 May 2005I have been seeing a large number of hits with the following User-Agent string in my logs lately:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Firebird hasn’t existed as a browser for a very long time
A build date of October 7, 2003???
From 3 separate IP Addresses
This Apache REWRITE rule took care of this issue.
RewriteCond [...]
In: smp
25 Mar 2005Found a stupid GrabIP bug last night. When I clicked on one of the IP addresses in my log analysis system, it showed that the visitor was from Nigeria, then threw an error when the WHOIS attempted to get more information.
I realized that I did not have the code to handle the AFRINIC Registry in [...]
In: smp
11 Mar 2005Someone has been abusing the Anonymizer system and hammering my system. Again, IPTABLES is my friend.
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s 168.143.113.125 -j DROP
This IP Address points to vortex.anonymizer.com.
dig -x 168.143.113.125
; <<>> DiG 9.3.0 <<>> -x 168.143.113.125
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 52723
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: [...]
There is some idiot out there running a bot/attack protocol using a referring URL that always ends with ‘.eu.tt’.
Turns out that there was more than one IP involved. IPTABLES took care of them.
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s 200.123.9.119 -j DROP
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s 195.54.87.222 -j DROP
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s 194.47.95.115 -j DROP
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s 198.234.202.130 [...]