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Stopping Spambots: A Spambot Trap

Posted by Hemos on from the stopping-the-bots dept.

Neil Gunton writes "Having been hit by a load of spambots on my community site, I decided to write a Spambot Trap which uses Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, ipchains and Embperl to quickly block spambots that fall into the trap. "

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  1. /.ed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks like you should've written some code to handle an overload from slashdot too!

    1. Re:/.ed by HiQ · · Score: 3, Funny

      The dude fell in his own trap. :-D

  2. Slashbot by Ctrl-Z · · Score: 3, Funny


    "I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this bandwidth is too narrow to transmit."

    --
    www.timcoleman.com is a total waste of your time. Never go there.
  3. Hammered already.... by cswiii · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the website:
    The Problem: Spambots Ate My Website

    s/Spambots/Slashdot/

  4. Another way to stop spambots by PanBanger · · Score: 3, Funny

    Have your page linked on slashdot! Page gets slashdotted, problem solved.

  5. Re:Block? Are you kidding? by BlueUnderwear · · Score: 5, Funny
    - for every random (non-existent) domain that you generate, a root DNS server will be queried when an email is sent to this address, which increases the load on the root servers, which is generally a bad thing.

    Why is this a bad thing? They are owned by Verisign.

    How about instead, returning pages with the email address abuse@domain-that-spambot-is-coming-from all over them...

    This is also a good idea. In fact, I have a script which does a traceroute to the IP of the bot, and then looks up the admin contact using whois for the last couple of hops, and returns these. Oh, and for additional fun, throw in a couple of addresses of especially loved "friends"...

    --
    Say no to software patents.
  6. Re:Elements of good design I'd missed by dattaway · · Score: 2, Funny

    but...but...a blind AND deaf internet user couldn't read your webpage.

    I'm sure you don't want THAT kind of lawsuit.

  7. Re:Block? Are you kidding? by blibbleblobble · · Score: 3, Funny

    Especially loved "friends"...

    Like hotline@mpaa.org, cdreward@riaa.org, senator@hollings.senate.gov for example?

  8. Note to self by underclocked · · Score: 2, Funny

    Before announcing new useful project to Slashdot community, create Freshmeat/Sourceforge page first there by eliminating the need for my host to shut me down for execssive bandwidth.

  9. Thank you all very much by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Now that I've read all your countermeasures, I have created the ultimate Spam Bot to get by these traps. ;]