[jadmin] bulk-registrations - Spam?

[Florian Jensen]

All spam attacks are from: 204.8.219.178

It's this dedicated server causing the problems.

iptables -I INPUT -s 204.8.219.178 -j DROP

will solve the problem.

Florian Jensen

Nickola Kolev wrote:
> On Tue, 06 May 2008 12:52:22 -0600
> Peter Saint-Andre<stpeter at stpeter.im>  wrote:
>
>> On 05/06/2008 12:02 PM, Nickola Kolev wrote:
>>> Hello, Tim,
>>>
>>> On Tue, 06 May 2008 17:49:48 +0200
>>> Tim Korves<tk at x23.eu>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> are there any chances to prevent such bulk-registrations (aka spam)?
>>>> Other then completely disable registration?
>>> Read the logs from the meeting yesterday to get the idea at:
>>> http://im.flosoft.biz/muclogs/xaai@conference.im.flosoft.biz/2008/05/05.html
>>>
>>> Besides that, has anyone spotted registrations from different IP addresses?
>>> I got one today from 77.238.103.215 (Russia).
>> By "one" do you mean bulk registration, or just registration in general?
>
> By "one" I mean "one", with a name '26jfsnx6'. This doesnt *look* like
> a normal username, but more of the result from executed ruby script
> MattJ (IIRC) showed us, and that's why I asked for any registrations
> from especially this IP address.
>
>> Peter
>>
>> --
>> Peter Saint-Andre
>> https://stpeter.im/
>>
>>
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