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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IP Delegations for Forum Spammers and Invalid Whois info
This is a known problem with known solutions. There are RBL's, bayesian filters, behaviour filters, and what not. For a phpbb forum I'd suggest a captcha, although that's extremely annoying. This is becoming the next (last) spamvertising medium and Google poisoning medium. I and others spend hours on this issue every day. We even have a mailing list for this. Good luck, Gadi. On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Mark Foster wrote: > I assume the ongoing problems that forum administrators have with people > randomly signing up to forums - even closed ones requiring admin approval > for all accounts - for the purpose of spamming their web urls around the > place is an old one. > > I run such a forum and have started implementing /16 level bans to try to > slow them down. Obviously not the best solution. > > The forum in question is phpBB (I know - whos isn't) and i'm yet to have > time to actually start digging into whether there are better ways of > responding to this issue. (Volume isnt prohibitive - yet.) > > In the most recent case the IP address space that the website concerned > points back to is in the Ukraine and the listed abuse contact is on a > domain which is canned due to invalid contact details provided. > > My question then is - what happens now? The IP address space is > essentially 'untraceable' except perhaps through > bandwidth-supplier-agreements or somesuch. Shouldn't IP's with similarly > invalid contact details be 'suspended' after being given opportunity to > provide updated, correct details? > > The IP range in question is 195.225.176.0 - 195.225.179.255 and a snippet > of the whois info provided is as follows: > > remarks: **************************************** > remarks: * Abuse contacts: [email protected] * > remarks: **************************************** > > person: Vsevolod Stetsinsky > address: 01110, Ukraine, Kiev, 20Á, Solomenskaya street. room 206. > phone: +38 050 6226676 > e-mail: [email protected] > nic-hdl: VS1142-RIPE > source: RIPE # Filtered > > > Forgive the relative noobishness of the question, but I've not had to deal > with this sort of situation before. Should I be forwarding to RIPE? > >
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