950187 - #rust channel under spambot attack

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Jack Moffitt [:jack]]

The #rust IRC channel seems to be under spambot attack today. Most of them are just posting innocuous messages like "Welcome" and "Hello", but the join/leave traffic and the messages are so bad we've had to set modes +MR to deal with it for now.

I haven't seen this in other rooms, so I'm concerned it's pointed directly at #rust. Is there something else we can do about this? Are the right people aware of this attack?

Comment 1

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

(In reply to Jack Moffitt [:jack] from comment #0)

> I haven't seen this in other rooms, so I'm concerned it's pointed directly
> at #rust. Is there something else we can do about this? Are the right people
> aware of this attack?

I've cc'ed the right people on the bug now.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

#rust is the largest public channel on moznet now, so it's an obvious target for lazy spammers. #b2g and #firefox are often similarly affected.

mode +s would help with this (#developers never gets spammed!), but has some obvious downsides (slightly harder for people to find the channel, etc.)

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

The spam wave subsided, I don't think there's any action to track here.