Info Bite gets bigger teeth
Potential problems with bandwidth consumption are a frequent theme on Info Bite. I haven't run into a problem with it myself, and today, I took steps to postpone any problems even further by moving to...
View ArticleSSL without CAs?
The following, excepted from Yahoo!'s FAQ about DomainKeys, their proposal for authenticated email, points to a possible implementation of SSL (a.k.a. HTTPS or secure HTTP) which wouldn't require a CA,...
View ArticleBusting referrer spam is … a busted process?
I've been updating my referrer spam blocks every few days, but the **** who's spamming me keeps registering new domain names to do their spamming from. It keeps my server logs a little cleaner, but it...
View ArticleBlock referrer spam? Bah! Just ask!
Well, I managed yesterday to get in contact with the people who were sliming my server with referrer spam. I asked them to stop, and they removed me from their database! Amazing! My referrer logs look...
View ArticleBugtraq is Busted, and so is Blogger
Here's a message I've attempted twice to post to Bugtraq, but it appears to have been lost both times. Traffic on Bugtraq has been spotty lately. It talks about a security problem with Blogger's...
View ArticleThat those who follow may keep their feet a little cleaner…
I had my first publicly-visible internet server in 1998, and have learned a few lessons the hard way about what it takes to set up and administer one's own server while maintaining one's sanity. This...
View ArticleThe top 3 priorities of an internet server administrator
The top three priorities of an internet server administrator are: 1. Security 2. Security 3. Security When I was a newbie, I naively installed Red Hat Linux 5.something and if I thought about security...
View ArticleCompiling Apache: can’t find libpng.so
I was recomiling Apache today to update a few modules to their latest versions, and ran into a problem I hadn't seen before: the configure script complained that it couldn't find libpng.(a|so) (meaning...
View ArticlePreventing abuse of your DNS server
If you are running BIND on your server, here's a tip I discovered the hard way for reducing the probability of your server being abused. A few days ago, I started seeing major explosions in the amount...
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