Here some IP’s of some Botnet Servers of mj12bot.com: the Botnet ignores robots.txt and hammers on Mediawiki’s! A sorted output of a Log done with : cat /var/log/apache2/other*.log|grep MJ | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n Output for ufw Firewalls: 162.210.196.97 144.76.3.131 148.251.195.14 5.9.158.195 173.208.157.186 176.31.255.65 178.63.34.189 69.30.198.186 144.76.60.198 40.121.210.108 5.189.152.91 5.9.66.153 69.30.198.242 69.30.205.218 81.109.126.245 192.99.10.47 If this doesn’t help the use “Apache AUTH Basic” to block unwanted access!! It’s easy to setup.
Category: ubuntu
Convert WordPress Blog into Static Websites
For some reasons you want to convert your WordPress with Linux Tools into a Static Website: low level Hosting no SQL + PHP for higher Security Then open a Terminal and enter into a Text Editor: nano wp2statis.sh: #!/bin/bash wget \ –recursive \ –no-clobber \ –page-requisites \ –html-extension \ –convert-links \ –restrict-file-names=windows $url-of-site exit 0 Advantage? wget runs on most WP-Themes low Load on the convert Process Script can be used to run by Cron automaticly every Night !
Website Speed Test with Linux
If you own a Blog and want to check the Speed with your local Linux Computer use a commandline tool called curl. Open a Terminal and enter: curl -o /dev/null -s -w 'Connect: %{time_connect}\nStart Transfer: %{time_starttransfer}\nTotal: %{time_total}\n' https://www.yourdomain.de System Echos: Connect: 0,084774 Start Transfer: 0,173280 Total: 0,228651 Advantage? You will see the Website Load Time of Users at your Location (Country Area) You can check “high performance Clouds” vs. “bare metal Servers” or “virtual Hosting” You see that mostly expensive Hosting is wasted money cause “shared” IO V-Host is SLOWER! You get the real “felt” IO for Users who […]
Firefox Stop Home Calls
During my last Network Monitoring found out that MANY of “free” Software calls home permanent Article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections .. if you want to be safe, block all OUTGOING Traffic by a Firewall or local DNS Server and use a Proxy with Auth Mechanism!
Major Bug: UFW stopped thru logrotate
On Debian Sid i have seen that ufw service is stopped on logrotate!! Its a bad known bug! Workaround: Set all Services like Dovecot, Postfix to listen on LOCALHOST (127.0.0.1) if not needed over Internet Enable ONLY encrypted AUTH (Login) to Postfix! (TLS 1.2) Disable unneeded Services ! like Samba, FTP… move config from /etc/logrotate.d/ufw to /root/ to disable ufw logrotate !! edit /etc/ufw/ufw.conf set LOGLEVEL to “off” restart the Server and check open Ports next Days from outside with: $sudo nmap -PN my.server.com
Split Files on embedded Linux Systems
If you run a embedded Linux PC like raspi often some Linux Commands fail without error messages, cause the hardware performance is low tech. Same i have seen on the split command.. to split a 50GB Photos-Archive File to 4Gb on a USB Drive i found out that: sudo split -b 4096m -d -u Photos.tgz Photos-Archive_ fix the job.. Cause option -u disable IO-Caching over the 2.0 USB Port to the RAM of the raspi that the Data of the Output Stream is written direct to the Drive.