The official spam thread

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 28, 2003 4:51 pm

Hey Wren you know what's weird? I got a call today from a company, and they were having the same problem you were having, that some sites did not work, and I tried them as she called, and they worked fine. Sites like yahoo, msn etc...

Thought I'd share since it's kind of strange!

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed May 28, 2003 4:53 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: Hey Wren you know what's weird? I got a call today from a company, and they were having the same problem you were having, that some sites did not work, and I tried them as she called, and they worked fine. Sites like yahoo, msn etc...

Thought I'd share since it's kind of strange!

What is even more strange is that I haven't seen anything that explains why. I don't see any articles on it.

I am curious....

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Wed May 28, 2003 5:21 pm

It might be happening more than we know...some might think it's the site's server. It was strange to me that I couldn't get anywhere on the net but 1 forum and that 1 forum is not always the same one.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 28, 2003 7:02 pm

I think someone is hacking into DNS servers and changing the IPs... and not getting caught. I'm sure they don't check the access logs line by line. There are 7 root DNS servers for the entire internet, just imagine the size of those logs!

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed May 28, 2003 7:05 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: I think someone is hacking into DNS servers and changing the IPs... and not getting caught. I'm sure they don't check the access logs line by line. There are 7 root DNS servers for the entire internet, just imagine the size of those logs!

That sounds reasonable.

If I can't get to something with a domain name, I should be able to with an IP address, right?

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Wed May 28, 2003 9:55 pm

Yep, something's going on...I just hit a slowdown while signing in, ok now though.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:39 pm

I am having slow-downs at the AF.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:40 pm

Yeah this time it was the server, it was happening to me too.

It always happends when I'm doing something important too! Enoying! Took me about 10 tries before I could log on the ftp server. I was adding some more features to our advanced security system. I have some more plans for later, but for now it's strong enough.

Php is fun...

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:43 pm

Don't raise the gate too high or we can't jump over!

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:45 pm

Wren wrote: Don't raise the gate too high or we can't jump over!

When do you think my turkey will be done, Sir Oliver?

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:46 pm

Huh!

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:47 pm

Red, how can I not mind you when you are shoving all of these Javascript things at me!

Anyway, I don't mind, so you can test things out on me...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:47 pm

Wren wrote: Don't raise the gate too high or we can't jump over!

Not to worry, it's just a very tall glass. We all know about it and can get around, but those who can't will get splatered with a nice popup saying so, with the word ISP in it as well.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:48 pm

Hehe tak, I was just testing the IP feature of the security system.

Umm, it works.

No harm done of course, all it does is set an alarm which to me was a false one, so I simply cleared it.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:50 pm

That gave me an idea.

I should program a mod to send each other messages, it would be kind of like PMs but it would be IP based, so we could even send them to guests, and guests can send them to other guests etc...

That would be kind of cool.

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:50 pm

Ok Red, pop'em with the php or whatever!

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:52 pm

Wren wrote: Ok Red, pop'em with the php or whatever!

Yeah!

Throw in a little spice for flavour!

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:53 pm

Habenero sauce anyone?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:55 pm

Actually, here's a little snap shot of how the manager looks like. I cleared off all the blocked IPs I had, they did not connect since the first offence, so chances are another isp customer is using them.

fun fun fun!

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:57 pm

If someone is on dial-up, how will you know who it is?

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:58 pm

I see you are still using Mozilla...

(Well, I guess that could be Netscape...

)

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:12 pm

Wren wrote: If someone is on dial-up, how will you know who it is?

ISPs tend to give in the same range. For example, a specific range I've been watching is 217.158.132.* and 217.158.145.* where the * can be any number from 0 to 255.

Both these IP blocks are provided by the isp Claranet and belong to a specific dial-up user we all know.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:20 pm

I noticed something funny. With all the replies in this thread, only 5 of us actually posted in it.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed May 28, 2003 11:25 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: I noticed something funny. With all the replies in this thread, only 5 of us actually posted in it.

Goodness!

Only that many?

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Thu May 29, 2003 12:03 am

Getting late here, see you all later.

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