Comments on: WordPress spam…

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 08:26:42 +0000

In reply to Bert. It's been about a decade since I went through this, and I ended up using the askimet plugin to deal with the spam. It was a much better way to deal with the noise, and still allow me to access the blog from within China when I was there.

By: Bert

Bert — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:39:32 +0000

Be careful with blocking legacy IPv4 addresses… The use of CGNAT is extremely widespread so there might be many thousands of real users behind a single address. One customer of the ISP becomes infected with malware which starts sending out spam, and suddenly all customers are now blacklisted and can’t visit various sites. And from a user perspective, the site will look to be down.
In some cases you don’t even need any malicious behaviour, simply a large number of real users from a single address is enough to trigger a block in many cases.

I have frequent troubles accessing legacy IPv4 sites because of this. For more modern sites that have implemented IPv6 i never have a problem.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:33:31 +0000

In reply to ampharos.

It isn’t that weird, I’m EVERYWHERE… or I have a wide & strange range of interests… 🙂

By: ampharos

ampharos — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:20:48 +0000

I’ve been seeing your blog on the sites I roam around on; one for Dell UNIX and the other for Neko.

Seems weird!