>> Wow Baidubot is surely hitting on BBBS' webserver over here :(  Oh
>> well.. off to inet.bbb to get rid of them haha

> you could just deny them access to those links in BBBS that lead to
> places like  the messages, files and games... they are robots.txt 
> friendly...

 JK> Well, that's not exactly the problem.. the content is so not
 JK> 'private' in other words.. but when they tie up my bbbs
 JK> web/telnet/binkp nodes, 'real fido people' can't connect.. that is
 JK> a drag 

yeah, i can see that with a server that has limited handlers allowed... but
the idea was to limit what they have access to so they're in and out as
fast as possible ;)

>> I mean, I really don't mind if they hit the main web server here..
>> but bbbs is limited to only those 7 nodes.

> i assume by that you mean that it is similar to apache in that
> there's seven HTTP handlers that are allowed to run and you don't 
> allow any more than that??

 JK> Yes, that's right, but it's not that I don't allow any more than 7,
 JK> it's because the way bbbs works is you register the number of nodes
 JK> you want for the bbbs daemons.. so I have 7 nodes registered...
 JK> that's 1 phone-modem node, 6 http instances, 6 telnet nodes, 6
 JK> binkp nodes, etc. 

yup... pretty much the same idea... close enough for the analogy ;)

 JK> I also run BinkD stand-alone mailer on the standard binkp port to 
 JK> pick up more binkp connections since I know the bbbs binkp nodes 
 JK> get a bit busy with the number of downlinks here .  BBBS's 
 JK> binkp daemon runs on port 24555.

i'd really hate it if the bots started hitting the telnet and binkd
stuff... i think that google does the http and ftp stuff now... i know i've
seen references to it in my ftp logs somewhere...

 JK> I guess what really bugged me was that these spiders were hitting
 JK> all the ports here.. not just 80 :(   I mean, what could a spider
 JK> get out of attemping repeated connections to my binkp port on
 JK> 24555?? 

trying to connect to a web server that it thinks is running there... if it
is doing that, lodge a complaint and/or block it at the perimeter and don't
let it in at all ;) depending on the methods, it could be blocked at the
perimeter for all ports except for 80 :P

 JK> Great thing this week:   when I contacted Kim Heino (he's the
 JK> author of bbbs) about my dead motherboard and all that, etc., (he
 JK> uses ftp to connect so we needed to set that up on the main ftp
 JK> server), he sent me a beta 64 bit version of BBBS.. Really cool :) 
 JK> It's running really well.

i saw reference to you running 64bit earlier... that's a GoodThing ;)

>> That's great!  It'd be nice to see Z6 up and running again.

>> Yeah really :)  He's got some friends who'll be coming in, and if
>> we count the z6 folks that we've got listed in Z3 right now, it
>> should make a good basis for reinstating that zone.

> that might be a good thing... especially considering the reasons why
> Z6 went away last time it was operational...

 JK> Understand.. these kinds of things take time, but we're hoping. 

word up! :P

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