[mythtv-users] Google ate my recordings

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Tue Oct 24 18:47:40 UTC 2006


On Oct 24, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Cool Frood wrote:

> On 10/24/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Glenn Chubak wrote:
>>
>>> First, I do recognize that I am an idiot and that this is entirely
>>> my fault.
>>> The point of this post is mostly a reminder to not be stupid like  
>>> me.
>>>
>>> I recently migrated my myth install to a new server and rather than
>>> setup the
>>> appropriate security on mythweb I just blocked outside access.  It
>>> was good
>>> enough for the moment.  My daughter's first birthday comes along
>>> and I want
>>> to through a video up for an aunt that couldn't come so I (ENTIRELY
>>> without
>>> thinking) enable http access from outside on the server.  Stupid!
>>> The next
>>> day my wife says that about 3:00 all of the recordings disappeared
>>> from myth.
>>> Strange...  I begin investigating and find that they have been
>>> deleted from
>>> the web interface.  Checking the apache access logs reveals that
>>> the culprit
>>> is none other than googlebot which seems to have crawled my pages  
>>> and
>>> followed the link into mythweb.  googlebot seems to have followed
>>> the delete
>>> links and voila no more recordings.
>>>
>>> I would have thought that mythweb "Are you sure?" dialogs would
>>> have stopped
>>> the googlebot but it doesn't seem so.  If anyone is interested I
>>> can post the
>>> access logs from apache.
>>
>> You're certainly not the first. Check the thread "Visit from the
>> Googlebot" in the archives.
>
>
> Does the Googlebot or Yahoobot or whateverelsebot come looking on
> something other than port 80?  I've got my webserver configured on
> some other port.  Sure, I should perhaps have better security, but I'm
> lazy.

Those bots might not, but there are plenty of malicious things that  
will look for any open port as a way into your server. It's really  
really really easy to add http authentication and saves so many  
headaches and worries.



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