Don't code before having coffee
I was testing a new blog-spam detection script this morning and generated the same kind of hits a spammer would do on my blog, tested the script, all great, turned the script on, left for work.
Came home from work, sat down to check my email and noticed I can't get to my server. Checked traceroute.. times out at the gateway.. hmm.. odd.. Other people can get to it, how strange.. Logged in on a console, everything is working and people are using it. Yep, sure enough, I banned my own bloody IP using my spammer detection script. Hey, at least I know it works well.
Thank god for a remote console..
Comments
And thank God for a smart friend who helped you figure it out ;-)
Posted by: Steve Friedl | February 16, 2005 06:02 PM
I would have realized it in a few minutes :)
Posted by: kasia | February 16, 2005 06:04 PM
Paranoid about exactly that, I added a whitelist to my blacklist when I first implemented it...
Posted by: Harald | February 16, 2005 06:33 PM
Haha, since you work at a bank now, you'd better not try what Michael Bolton did in Office Space - you'll surely misplace the decimal point too.
Posted by: Dave | February 16, 2005 09:27 PM
Praise remote consoles and backups. There when you need them (hopefully), and out of sight when you're working.
Don't admin a box without them (unless you want to pray a lot).
Posted by: d | February 17, 2005 09:02 PM
why not "multiport 25,80"?
Posted by: Observer | February 19, 2005 01:55 PM