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|    Message 2,338 of 2,762    |
|    Janis Kracht to Alan Ianson    |
|    blocked or no more free nodes!    |
|    28 Mar 20 00:52:14    |
      MSGID: 1:261/38.0 00161b8a       REPLY: 1:153/757.0 38b1a10c       TZUTC: -0500       CHARSET: LATIN-1       Hi Alan,              >I have recently put a website online with BBBS using bbbsd with http and https       > and am getting lines in my log like..              > Got HTTP from ???.???.???.???:?????, blocked or no more free nodes! Got raw       > from ???.???.???.???:?????, blocked or no more free nodes!              Both you and Jeff see this message, I think Jeff mentioned to me he sees it       often. I don't see it that often (who knows why, not as many idiots hitting       my servers??) We both use iptables to ward off jerks, I'll show you the lines       I use for iptables at the end of this message.              >I have been running telnetd, rawd, ftpd and smtpd without issues. Once I added       > http and https to my bbbsd command line I've been seeing the above. After a       > time nothing responds anymore, not telnet, not raw and not ftp.              In the past when this did happen to bbbs over here, restarting the bbbsd       daemon helped. I generally kill the daemon and restart it about every two       weeks just out of habit. To clear the whatevers, if you know what I mean :)              > Needless to say that is just not going to work. :)              Understand. I checked my inet.log and don't see any connections from       ???.???.etc.              >I'm not sure what the problem or solution might be. At the moment I have taken       > http and https off my command line to run the BBS servers but I would like to       > have the website available also.       > Anyone know why this happens or what I can do to make it work better?              The first thing I do after a reboot of the _system_ is iptables -F and iptables       -X to clean out the automatically installed iptables. Then after that I send       the following commands:              REM example: iptables -A INPUT -s IP-ADDRESS -j DROP       So I kill yandex.com and also semrush.com because they hit my system every       day, and often like this:              iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m string --string "yandex.com" --algo kmp -j REJECT              Then I use a different line to stop idiots from smashing my HTTPD bbbs mailer       like this (two steps)       One:       sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 8090 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m       recent --set              Two:       sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 8090 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m       recent --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 2 -j DROP              8090 is the port I have always used for BBBSD. You would change that to the       port you use for bbbsd.              Hope this helps :)              Take care,       Janis              --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4        * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/5 15/0 19/36 34/999 90/1 106/201 116/18 110 120/331       SEEN-BY: 123/140 128/2 153/757 7715 203/0 218/700 221/0 1 6 360 222/2       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/101 426 452 1014 230/0 150 152 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 249/206 317 250/1 261/38 100 266/512 267/155 275/100       SEEN-BY: 280/464 5003 282/1031 1056 291/1 111 292/140 854 8125 317/3       SEEN-BY: 320/119 219 322/757 335/364 340/400 900 342/13 200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 423/81 640/1111 1138 1321 1384 712/848 801/161 189 2320/105       SEEN-BY: 3634/12 5020/1042       PATH: 261/38 640/1321 1384 221/1 292/854 229/426           |
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