{"id":1238,"date":"2017-02-09T00:14:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T05:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2017-02-09T00:14:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T05:14:34","slug":"new-service-for-pissing-me-off-bitninja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2017\/02\/09\/new-service-for-pissing-me-off-bitninja\/","title":{"rendered":"New service for pissing me off &#8211; BitNinja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did something terrible, something no sysadmin in their right mind should do to a\u00a0 server. I ran nmap. Once. And I got myself on some kind of blacklist, essentially into a hosts.deny<\/p>\n<p>I could no longer access the website I was working with. Requests would time out, with occasionally a half-loaded page which I can only see the title of: &#8220;Visitor anti-robot validation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After hours of fighting with it I figured out the blocking is done by a retarded service called BitNinja, a service likely purchased by the server&#8217;s provider.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the problem?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First of all &#8211; the fact that it took me hours to figure out who is causing it.<\/li>\n<li>Second &#8211; really, an NMAP gets you on a blacklist these days?<\/li>\n<li>Third &#8211; look at their website, bitninja.io. And try to find ONE MENTION of getting your IP delisted from their bullshit lists. You won&#8217;t. Unless you first pay to suubscribe to their service.<\/li>\n<li>Fourth &#8211; have you looked at their website yet? They sell bullshit. Everything is a sound byte, nothing has substance. There is no information on there that&#8217;s even remotely technically useful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The problem is &#8211; I don&#8217;t run the hosting company. I just help out with the server. So I have to deal with these bitninja retards. I have two &#8220;options&#8221; I will both pursue:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Email bitninja. According to many reports I read online this is hopeless. BitNinja is a scam and they will not do anything for you unless you pay them.<\/li>\n<li>Email the hosting company who (presumably) did pay BitNinja. And hope that they have better luck, though given that they are paying for this bullshit service I suspect they don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re doing either.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Option 3? I don&#8217;t know that there is one. I already got two IPs blocked, one of which is my static IP at home. Soon I won&#8217;t any networks I can access which will not be banned by the BitNinja scam.<\/p>\n<p>My last option might be to not work with this server at all. But I really wanted to volunteer to help these guys out. They could really use a linux expert on their team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did something terrible, something no sysadmin in their right mind should do to a\u00a0 server. I ran nmap. Once. And I got myself on some kind of blacklist, essentially into a hosts.deny I could no longer access the website I was working with. Requests would time out, with occasionally a half-loaded page which I &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-1238","6":"format-standard","7":"category-safeforseneca"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}