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


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

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    www.timcoleman.com is a total waste of your time. Never go there.
  2. Re:/.ed by HiQ · · Score: 3, Funny

    The dude fell in his own trap. :-D

  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"...

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    Say no to software patents.
  6. 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?