I’m getting a 403 Forbidden error when I try to trackback you :(

I’m using an older version of Bad Behaviour in generic mode on my site - seems to work well. No complaints from users and my referer spam has divebombed.

Ditto.

Ping ‘http://stupidevilbastard.com/index/trackback/7190/’ failed: HTTP error: 403 Forbidden

Interesting—evidently you can run Bad Behavior with MT.  Hmmmm ...

Trackback error here as well:

http://stupidevilbastard.com/index/trackback/7191/ - Unknown Error

“SEB - The Forbidden Site!”

I’m running BB2 on a few of my Drupal sites. Unless I hardcode exceptions for users of certain proxies, they are plain out of luck…

OK, trackback errors were due to the ReWrite rule Elwed put into the .htaccess file to block trackback attempts. I forgot about that. I’ve commented it out so it should be working now. Doh!

It semes to be working here.

So it looks like BB2 isn’t very good at blocking trackback spam, Les. I got a bunch within minutes of enabling my trackbacks.

Still getting:

Ping ‘http://stupidevilbastard.com/index/trackback/7190/’ failed: HTTP error: 403 Forbidden

Same here, I’m afraid.

I got a bunch within minutes of enabling my trackbacks.

I got one within 10 minutes of removing the ReWrite rule in the .htaccess file and there’s been a few more over the evening hours, though nothing on the scale of what it was previously. All told only 5 trackback spams total since turning them back on. Usually I’d end up with 150 to 200 when one of them got past the Blacklist. It’s rather odd, though, that ***Dave and Neil are still getting forbidden errors.

I’m not currently using the “strict” option on the extension so only getting 5 spams isn’t too bad and I could live with having to clean those up on occasion to have the benefit of allowing trackbacks once more. Now if I can only figure out why legitimate trackbacks are failing.

We’ve gotten another 5 or so trackback spams since i wrote that last reply so I’ve turned on the “strict” option to see if it makes a difference. This means that some folks who are going through a proxy (some ISPs, corporate environments, and anonymizers) might have problems commenting. Again, drop me an email if that ends up being the case.

Ignore me, just trying to comment through a proxy.

I’ve turned trackbacks off once again. While the spam that was coming in never hit anything close to the deluge we’ve had in the past—it was mostly one or two spams every hour or so—it was consistent enough to make it annoying.

Not sure how to judge the extension at this point. It seems like it kept trackback spam to a minimum, but wasn’t able to eliminate it altogether and, unlike the Blacklist, it has no way of adding new spammers to it’s blocking system. In combination with the blacklist it would probably be pretty effective, but the idea was to eliminate the need to maintain a huge blacklist (and SEB’s is quite huge).

No comment spam to speak of, but that’s never been a big problem with EE so that’s not a surprise.

Well, at least I found that Firefox displays some sort of Chinese characters.

It was spam and I’ve deleted it and blacklisted the URL.

Les can you refer me to the group that designed the template of your EE?

The template? You mean the layout? That would be me. Though the modified images I’ve been using for Halloween weren’t done by me, I believe those were whipped up by SEB regular Beau Tochs.