Matt-- Trackback pings will be supported in the next release as well. Unfortunately, there is no way to moderate those, so they will be denied if you enable filtering for trackbacks.
Jake-- it's a quick operation that shouldn't be noticeable. The longest part by far of a comment post is the page rebuilding process.
]]>Here's a list of DNSBL lists and what they cover. There are links to the websites of the DNSBL maintainers, where details of the listing (and de-listing!) criteria are given. opm.blitzed.org seems to be the right choice for blocking open HTTP proxies.
]]>It doesn't split the pages, on each page like ?page=2 it's still the whole entry.
The suggestion the other person gave had a lot of problems. I fixed one thing, I believe it needs echos instead of ending the php ?> throughout. (I'm a beginner, though) But I couldn't get it to work at all, because the MTEntryBody gave an error, it just wouldn't work with it.
Anyway, if you can help me with the code, could you e-mail me? Oh, and I also don't know where to place the code. And the code the other person gave, it didn't say, but I figured out it goes where the entry should go.
]]>http://www.nonplus.net/software/mt/MTPaginate.htm
]]>Thank you for this port.
]]>This would ensure that ip spoofing would be reduced, since the posting procedure is a two step process, and hence not stateless.
We could then start removing some of the spammers via their isps.
]]>Help!
]]>I had the same problem; in my case, my colocation provider had made what I'd consider to be an error in configuring its DNS server. Long story short, the DNS server I was using would return 66.207.160.151 (www.cologuys.com) for any host within the cologuys.com domain. Since Net::DNS does not append a . to queries, all queries made by the plugin would resolve to 66.207.160.151. Thus, everything got blocked.
To fix this, find the line:
if (checkdnsrr("$d.$c.$b.$a.list.dsbl.org")) {
And edit it to read:
if (checkdnsrr("$d.$c.$b.$a.list.dsbl.org.")) {
For version 1.1, it's line 15 in both versions of the plugin.
]]>On Windows, it would appear that Net::DNS is required (rather than just suggested). I used ppm to get Net-DNS and commenting appears to be functioning normally once more.
Thanks for the great plugin!
]]>http://dsbl.org/listing?217.43.183.42
The commenter was kind enough to send me a mail. Looking back through my activity logs, I see that MT-DBSL has only blocked one comment since November, so I'm disabling it for now.
## Check blacklists
my $rem_ip = $app->remote_ip;
my ($a, $b, $c, $d) = split(/\./, $rem_ip);
my $rev = "$d.$c.$b.$a";
## DSBL list
my $lookup = "$rev.list.dsbl.org";
if(gethostbyname($lookup))
{ return $app->_response(Error =>
$app->translate("Your IP is blacklisted by DSBL, $lookup see http://dsbl.org/listing?$rem_ip."));
}
Also, the very ambitious among you may want to check out rbldnsd (http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/rbldnsd.html) for running your own blacklist. I run both a DNSBL and a RHSBL (domain list) locally and have configured BIND to pass blacklist requests back to it.
I'm working on a larger system to identify and blacklist referer and comment spam sources and beneficiaries - the design docs are at http://wiki.austinimprov.com/aiwiki/DistributedWebserverDefense
I have proof-of-concept code (PHP/MySQL) that analyzes Apache logs; a MT analyzer should not be too difficult to add.
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