{"id":57,"date":"2007-06-29T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T14:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/29\/drg-servers-fanboy-or-mole\/"},"modified":"2007-06-29T10:10:15","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T14:10:15","slug":"drg-servers-fanboy-or-mole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/29\/drg-servers-fanboy-or-mole\/","title":{"rendered":"DRG Servers &#8211; Fanboy or Mole?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So ever since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/20\/drg-servers-the-issue-that-will-not-die\/\">latest round of foolishness with DRG<\/a>, the comment spam to this blog has gone from 1 or 2 entries a day to almost 50 a day.  You know, comments full of nonsense words and dozens of links to all kinds of crap sites, that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Usually none of them are actually posted, thanks to automated spam blocking software, but I was curious as to why the sudden increase.  Of course I would <strong>never<\/strong> accuse DRG servers of directly targeting a site they don&#8217;t approve of without proof.  I did learn something interesting though.<\/p>\n<p>Remember &#8216;DeathBG&#8217;, who was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/22\/drg-servers-update\/#comment-218\">an obvious shill for DRG<\/a>?  His IP information tracks back to here:<\/p>\n<pre>OrgName:    RIPE Network Coordination Centre\r\nOrgID:      <a href=\"http:\/\/ws.arin.net\/cgi-bin\/whois.pl?queryinput=O%20%21%20RIPE\">RIPE<\/a>\r\nAddress:    P.O. Box 10096\r\nCity:       Amsterdam\r\nStateProv:\r\nPostalCode: 1001EB<\/pre>\n<pre>Country:    NL<\/pre>\n<p>I looked up the info for the IPs of the last 10 spam posts &#8211; 8 of those 10 IPs resolved to <em>the exact same information<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s just a coincidence though.<\/p>\n<p>(Which reminds me &#8211; I always keep redundant copies of TheMook.Net archived off-line, so no worries there &#8230; but if the site does get hacked, I think we all know from where such an attack would come).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/phpBB2\/viewtopic.php?t=3316\" title=\"Forum Comments\">Forum Discussion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So ever since the latest round of foolishness with DRG, the comment spam to this blog has gone from 1 or 2 entries a day to almost 50 a day. You know, comments full of nonsense words and dozens of links to all kinds of crap sites, that sort of thing. Usually none of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}