Excellent. Someone in MSFT’s networking group has put a cached list of sites participating in Distributed Boing Boing in their live.com results, meaning that requests for some users over there use my bandwidth to pull BB’s pages. And I seem to be on that list: requests for pages at BB.net that originate at MSFT go through me first.
65.55.110.117 - - [02/Jul/2008:19:45:20 -0700] "GET /dbb.php?http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/13/bionic-limbs.html HTTP/1.0" 200 23576 "http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=boing&form=QBHP" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
# whois 65.55.110
OrgName: Microsoft Corp
OrgID: MSFT
Address: One Microsoft Way
City: Redmond
StateProv: WA
PostalCode: 98052
Country: US
NetRange: 65.52.0.0 – 65.55.255.255
I talked with the author of DBB this week and he took the list down once the folks at SmartFilter figured it out, but evidently some people made copies of the list of sites. Bad network engineer, no biscuit.
Time to pull the plug on this, in a more comprehensive way than URL rewrites or redirects.
That ought to do it . . .
< ?php
header("Location: http://boingboing.net/\n\n");
exit;
?>