Bad Behavior is, of course, the anti-spam software which sparked this project you see before you.
The Bad Behavior Blackhole, when complete, will allow copies of Bad Behavior to collaborate and catch spammers who currently evade Bad Behavior’s checks. It will also export a DNS-based RBL which anyone will be able to query, even if they don’t use Bad Behavior. For instance, Bad Behavior’s RBL could be added into Spam Karma 2.
The current progress of the project is:
- DNS server is complete and in place. It reads from a special database in realtime and entries have a TTL of 60 seconds. The RBL address is dnsbl.ioerror.us.
- Web site is mostly complete. You’re looking at it.
- Much code remains to be written on the backend to support adding and removing data from the database.
As the project progresses from concept to implementation, I will continue to post here.