On Saturday evening, I noticed that connecting to the wiki on projects.boblycat.org was extremely slow, and when I sshed into the box, Apache was eating about 100% CPU. A peek in the logs told me that I had a few requests coming in per second for comment submissions in an old copy of Moveable Type we had left running.

After some digging, it turned out that the requests came from two subdomains of powerstorm.ai.net, namely www143.powerstorm.ai.net and www142.powerstorm.ai.net. These two hosts were hamming us with the usual spam comments as fast as they could.

I consulted Håvard and we quickly decided to firewall those machines out. Since ai.net is a know bad guy (Google a bit and you'll see), we did not bother to inform them that we'd notices their evil machinations.

As usual, spammers should be castrated. People near 11700 Montgomery Rd, Beltsville in Maryland should feel free to pay AiNET HQ a visit.