General Blather

I noticed a bit of an uptick in Log4j abuses. more »

Distracted from real tasks, I've spent about 3 hours looking for an HTTP tarpit I can put on my server to attempt to curb abuse scanning. more »

While trying to fix some things, the power went out in the house. The data center remained powered on, except the ISP CPE router. more »

More accurately, my intrusion detection systems try to block Cloudflare. more »

I started the migration of databases to try to avoid the crashing that's been happening. more »

I reached out to them with my ideas and all the evidence that the Internet couldn't ping my WAN IP. They looked and fixed it. more »

Not an hour after I restarted the hiccuping database server, it seized again. more »