Anonymous Trac abuses

[jhpark@…]

Hi,

My server has the spam abuses from about 800 ip address in the same time.

Even I disabled the permissions to create/modify the ticket/wiki, my system suffers from the high cpu load about 8.0 ~ 10.0.

Those attacks are coming from the ip ranges of all around world including comcast, cox, and so on.

It looks like some viruses has a feature to abuse the targeted anonymous trac system in the same time.

Now my server loads seems fine after I registered all these ip addresses in my iptables' reject list. but I am still afraid that the number of ip addresses will keep increasing and the attacks would come from other ip addresses.

I don't expect any action from you, but I just like to inform you about this abuses to the trac system.

Thanks

[jhpark@…]

correct: cpu load is 80.0 ~ 100.0 (not 8.0 ~ 10.0)

[eblot]

Spam and bot issues are well known against Trac servers, edgewall.org used to suffer from the same problems.

You can take action such as black listing IP address ranges, or use the SpamFilter plugin, although this latter solution will probably not decrease your CPU load.

Anyway, it is not really relevant to fill in a ticket about this kind of issues, as you noticed, there are very few actions to take at Trac level. The Trac user mailing list is a better place to report such an issue, and get help from other users who face the same problems.