Hi Eli, On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 05:24:45PM +0300, Eli Billauer wrote: > I'm running a little phpBB forum, which is being bomarded by attempts to > submit > spam posts. I've solved the core problem already (i.e. preventing the spamming > itself and the flood of new users) down to zero, but I've noticed a huge > amount > of attempts -- I'm at ~800,000 hits per month, and it's not getting any > better. > > It's quite easy to tell a spammer's IP watching the HTTP logs, so it's not a > big deal to write a simple script and find the offending IPs, and block the > worst of them individually. In fact, I've already done that. > > But now I want revenge: I'd like to make the spammers' hosting providers aware > of their user activity. Is there any convention on how to automatically track > down who should be contacted for each and every IP? Or maybe some database, > where hosting providers are really looking? > > I expect some dozens of these every month. So an automated reporting method > should be possible.
The easiest solutions, I guess, would be to grep the output of 'whois [IP address]' for 'abuse', and then send an message to that address. I doubt those messages would have any effect at all, though. baurch -- http://baruch.siach.name/blog/ ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - bar...@tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il - _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux