{"id":29,"date":"2008-04-02T13:42:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T17:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2008-04-02T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T18:00:41","slug":"trackback-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Trackback Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone is attempting to spam my blog pretty heavily through trackbacks. This is stupid. It&#8217;s <strong>never<\/strong> going to work since I have so few comments here anyhow that I moderate all of them. It only serves to annoy me by generating an email saying that I have comments to moderate. My original thought was to block inbound packets from the offenders. It would be pretty simple. Add a table to my firewall config and then use a little shell script magic (grep, awk etc) to pull the addresses from the log an load them into the table. But a quick pass through sort confirmed that these attacks were coming from mostly different addresses. For now I&#8217;ve disabled trackbacks by disabling the php file that supports them. Next up change my mail filter to quarantine  the emails appropriately.   Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone is attempting to spam my blog pretty heavily through trackbacks. This is stupid. It&#8217;s never going to work since I have so few comments here anyhow that I moderate all of them. It only serves to annoy me by generating an email saying that I have comments to moderate. My original thought was to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/?p=29\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trackback Spam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myblog.vindaloo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}