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Someone adding from another site (not my own)
For a couple of weeks now I have been receiving emails telling me that there are (about 600) sites waiting to be verified. They are written in German and the "Remote Host" and "Verifier" fields are blank.

ie. the sites have not been entered via my links site - presumably the code to add sites for verification is on some German site somewhere and people are adding their info via that site. Suffice to say that these sites are not ones I would consider adding to my links list.

So, how do I stop this happening? I have always had my site listed as a referrer in links.cfg (which hosts are allowed to add to your database) so somebody has gotten around that.

(I have already gone into validate.db and deleted all of the bogus entries)

thanks a lot

Jen





http://trashed.org
get trashed!

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look in your links.cfg file for:

# Referers -- which hosts are allowed to add to your database.
@db_referers = ();


I think you just need to put the IP address of your server in the parentheses.

Kirk

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Thanks for that, but that is what I was referring to above. I have always had this entered for that line of code:

# Referers -- which hosts are allowed to add to your database.
@db_referers = ('trashed.org', 'www.trashed.org');

Is the syntax correct? (Perhaps I have just been lucky not to end up on one of these bulk add-your-site lists until now)

thanks

Jen


http://trashed.org
get trashed!

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You might want to check http://www.gossamer-threads.com/p/105547. Sounds like you've been caught by the "German spammers".

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Thank you so much, gotze! I ought to be able to get it sorted now.

Jen



http://trashed.org
get trashed!