p2pnet news | P2P:- Hi all:

Sorry about the long delay in getting posts happening this morning.

It was bad behaviour (or if you want, self-denial ) on the part of Wordpress Bad Behavior, an application billed as “the Web’s premier link spam killer” designed to keep your blog, forum, guestbook, wiki or content management system “free of link spam”.

When I logged on at 3:30 am this morning I saw:

Error 403

We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /wp-login.php on this server.

Your Internet Protocol address is listed on a blacklist of addresses involved in malicious or illegal activity. See the listing below for more details on specific blacklists and removal procedures.

Your technical support key is: xxxxxxxxxx

You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.

If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please contact p2pnet at shaw.ca and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.

And according to technical support, “Your request was blocked because of malicious automated requests received from your computer’s IP address.”

Shit!!!!

I’d been blacklisted!!! I spent 1/2 an hour trying to find a solution, but I wasn’t getting anything written and I thought it might be somethign to do with my host, who wasn’t on online at the time.

So I built a couple of stores (which I’ll post after this) and aboutr 15 monutes ago, thought I’d spend a bit more time tgrying to find out why I’d been blacklisted.

But it wasn’t me, it was Bad Behavior.

“All users should update to Bad Behavior 2.0.11 immediately to prevent being blocked from your own site,” it says in a very badly publicised post.

Within the past two days users have found themselves blocked from their own sites while using recent versions of Bad Behavior. A third party blacklist which Bad Behavior queries recently began sending false positives for any IP address queried, causing everyone using Bad Behavior to be blocked. This issue is fixed in Bad Behavior 2.0.11.

Oh.

“Some people have asked for more details on what exactly happened,” the explanation goes on, adding:

“In brief, yesterday I moved all of my sites to a new dedicated server. In the process, I decommissioned an old blacklist I was running which I thought wasn’t being used, not realizing that Bad Behavior was still set to use it. Shortly afterward, I found myself locked out of my own blog, just as you all did. So therefore, this release.”

Now you know, and if you’ve been having the same problem ………..

Cheers! And all the best …

Jon Newton – p2pnet

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