November 2, 2011

new tools update released

For those who have used the el-check-pats program in the 'tools'
package from here:

http://enemieslist.com/dnsbl/

I've released a newer version (tools-0.02.tgz) that adds support (via
a new '-a' switch) for forced anchoring of all patterns. This helps
prevent false positives on some of the more esoteric and awful patterns
in misc, such as the pattern None_186:

None_186:[\-\_]+:dynamic:broadband

which is actually supposed to only match these ridiculously named hosts:

None795:--__----- [184.82.227.236] (none)
None796:---___ [184.82.230.100] (none)
None797:--__-----__----- [184.82.236.130] (none)
None798:-_-_-_--- [184.82.237.130] (none)
None799:--__--___ [184.82.238.122] (none)
None800:---___--- [184.82.238.124] (none)
None803:--__----__---- [184.82.230.222] (none)
None804:-_-_----_--___- [184.82.250.150] (none)
None805:------ [66.151.32.56] (none)
None806:--____---_-- [184.82.236.20] (none)

but which in the absence of anchors can actually match anything with
a dash or underscore in the name. Whoops!

Anyway, this is for anyone who uses el-check-pats.

Posted by schampeo at 4:44 PM | TrackBack

April 25, 2005

Newer, Faster, grepcidr Released

There's a newer, faster grepcidr available; apparently, they've done some serious performance tweaking.

Posted by schampeo at 11:28 AM