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Updating the honeypot script

Author: M.Nordhoff (6 Mar 07 9:03pm)

I downloaded the PHP script nine months ago. Should I redownload it once a month or something to keep it up-to-date? How often does it usually change?

Edit: Well, I updated a few minutes after posting. Went smoothly, except I accidentally generated an address for myself. There have been a few, mostly minor, improvements. It still overuses " and <?php ?> as much as ever. :\

Post Edited (6 Mar 07 9:53pm)

Re: Updating the honeypot script

Author: M.Prince (7 Mar 07 6:58pm)

There aren't typically a lot of changes, although there have been a few minor ones recently. We may have some more soon as we begin to turn on some new features like Comment Spam monitoring. Fortunately, the first version of the script was built to be quite flexible, so it's held up pretty well.

Re: Updating the honeypot script

Author: M.Nordhoff (8 Mar 07 5:09am)

Yeah, it has. :)

Okay, then, feature suggestion: Have one of the management pages say if any of your honeypot scripts are out-of-date. It would just require keeping track of when the base script was last updated and when you last downloaded it. It should say that the changes are probably very small, so you shouldn't make updating it a very high priority.

Re: Updating the honeypot script

Author: C.Pettinger (25 Apr 07 10:53pm)

Question on this topic which was touched on above. (And I didn't see anything else on the site so I'm firing away here!)

I've had my scripts installed since December of 2004 (can that be right?) And I saw your bot come through and do a POST to the script recently. However I don't know if that was successful or what it did exactly.

I'm interested in the ability to track comment spammers as one of my blogs gets about 500 backtrack spams and a dozen comment spams a day. I guess I'm making the assumption that backtrack spams fall under the definition of comment spamming. Either way, I can't find a lot of information about how exactly you are tracking comment spam. I'm fine with the fact that you don't go into detail on that, I'm just curious if it is working at all with my scripts.

A quick "show source" gives me no indication that there is any "comment spam" tracking ability in the script although I did notice one difference, which I won't detail here.

Point is, you don't show any comment spammer hits for me in my stats. How do I know if its working? What do I do if it isn't?

Thanks.