Trackbacks, Bastards and Blocklists
As of recent, most particularly, last week I’ve recieved several hundred trackbacks to a collection of articles on this page. Had the situation that I’m about to describe been different such circumstances would be celebrated as oposed to being condemned and placed under a heading containing the word “Bastards,” but this situation fits the title wonderfully.
Essentially, all the trackbacks orginated from a single provider: inhoster.com
This host, from the best of my understanding contains no legitimate customers, and serves only as a cover for countless spammers running an innumerable number of spam bots. Lucky for me, and potentially the metaphorical us the trackbacks originated from a very narrow host of addresses. After several attempts, and filtering with a moderation queue my current blocklist and moderation filter contain just three entries, which for your convinience I will post here:
85.255.114
85.255.119
85.255.113
Feel free to add these to your block lists, or at the very least your moderation filter to stop these potential bastards from wasting your juicy bandwidth.
MysterHK wrote:
Just wanted to drop by and say, “Hello” and give you a big high five for this post. :)
Posted on 09-Sep-07 at 9:53 pm | Permalink