BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: Re: Clogged Nodes De: fusion Data: Fri, 22 May 2026 22:36:00 +0000 ----------------------------------------------------------- On 22 May 2026, Dux said the following... Du> Re: Clogged Nodes Du> By: Grease to All on Wed May 20 2026 16:16:50 Du> Du> > Does it seem like more and more bots are clogging up available nodes? W Du> > had my last bbs, it didn't seem this bad. What do y'all do? Add more no Du> Du> What are the bots doing? I log into my own BBS once or twice a year -- Du> it's dead as a doornail of course because I don't advertise or offer Du> anything particularly interesting -- but I'm just curious what the point Du> of a bot would be on a BBS? Posting to forums like these? Cheating at Du> DOOR games? they're not looking for BBSes they're looking for misconfigured *nix servers, commercial or industrial equipment, etc they immediately start trying to log in with default user information and then from there start in on the most common password lists.. admin / password admin / admin system / manager cisco / cisco etc. it's actually relatively common to run a "honeypot" to capture these types of connections and waste their time either by forcing a real person to investigate or waste the bot's time if they're smart and rate limit. the honeypot just pretends to be a misconfigured machine the bot is familiar with. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32) * Origin: cold fusion - cfbbs.net - grand rapids, mi ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]