Disabled the Last of My Bad Boy Bots
This morning I was able to restart the last of my servers that had a re-configuration with the MindAlign system to disable it. These were the 10 authentications per minute that were spamming the authentication server... well... the last of them are finally disabled and things seem to be going swimmingly. Good for me. I wrote up the documentation on how to re-enable them once MindAlign decides to allow bots once again - whenever that is. I just wanted to make sure that if I got hit by a truck, someone could read the docs and get things going again.
I know from experience that this is not going to make any difference in the MindAlign stability, but they have been rather insistent that we shut down these spamming bots and so I have done it as quickly as is prudent. We'll see if they are as quick to restore complete MindAlign service.
I'm not holding my breath.