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Portals Update

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Tornevall Networks are now live with following upgraded platforms:

  • Primary Portal and components
  • AUTHv4
  • DNSBL

Primary portal and components

Site changed to what was supposed to be TornevallWEB v6. As many visitors already seen, we’ve left the API-WEB creation to speed up projects that is more important to fix, than sites that requires too much time and work too finish. Therefore, most of the site is now in the root based on WordPress and all API integrations are being primarily made with this platform. In the same time, we win a community compatible platform. However, WordPress is not the only part built here.

First of all https://tornevall.net has now become https://www.tornevall.net to somehow support a standard webaddress naming. It is used to comunicate news and happenings, whatever that might be. Besides of this, there is a community forum located under https://www.tornevall.net/portal. The purpose with this forum is supposed to be supportive when there are bigger needs of communication. This is still a work that has to be processed a bit more.

The DNSBL removal tool used on this site is currently completely based on WordPress and available for download here. Just remember, to get everything like delisting etc to work, it is important to have an API key (read below).

Things that is built around the portals has a base tracker here.
The WordPress plugin has its own tracker here with the development source code here.

AUTHv4.0

This is a replacement of the less known site AUTHv3, which was supposed to host API based configuration. That project, aswell as the main portal, became too big. So in the same way, this site is built around WordPress. However, the big difference here – compared to the primary above – is that this authentication service also serve other users (meaning, it is possible to register an account there, to get API keys etc). So, to get API keys that handles DNSBL requests, this is the place to be. This service is a frontend gui to APIv3.

DNSBL ending phase

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We’re about to finish the long work of WP-DNSBL v2.0.0 which is a WordPress based plugin that will from this new release support and run with TorneAPIv3. APIv3 has much better documentation of how to use the DNSBL API (here). From this release, the API can also be configured via TorneAUTH v4, which will be located on https://auth.tornevall.net very soon, where API keys can be created automatically. All this together is planned to be a huge facelift (so the forum will hopefully also be updated in the same time and work as an extra support for the portal visitors).

Finishing this plugin has been very welcome by both me and other visitors, that during a long period have had a lot of problems with delisting themselves from the blacklist. For the moment, much of this is handled manually when the standard dnsbl site does not coorporate with us.

Changes

  • One big update for the new interface is that visitors can do CIDR-lookups (to see their entire network from a blacklist perspective).
  • Another update is that it should be more user friendly. Instead of impossible interfaces, there will be a raw, plain POST-form, with captcha support so system admins can run their delisting requests from another computers (where console is not supported)
  • The delisting and blacklist views are handled from a wordpress plugin, which means it might not be necessary to use the regular dnsbl server for delistings. By requesting special permissions, other servers might be able to communicate with the remote API too
  • The API is documented with more details than APIv2 was. This also means that own implementations of the DNSBL is made easier
  • Since we’re using a plugin for this, protecting admins from being banned from their own site is extra important
  • All bugs from DNSBLWP v1.x is hopefully fixed and removed

A complete CHANGELOG of what’s been fixed will be released soon. If you can’t wait for a status update you can take a look here. If you feel that something is missing, feel free to join the project and add requests!

When all this is done, there will be a whole new view for what could come next…

 

DNSBL for WordPress 2.0.0 CHANGELOG

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Release Notes – WP_DNSBL – Version 2.0.0

  • [DNSBLWP-30] – IPtype in helpers.php has no effect anywhere (and is translated into arpas instead of iptypes)
  • [DNSBLWP-33] – Do not use HTTP Post when sending DELETE (it fails)
  • [DNSBLWP-4] – API Key for handling of blacklists
  • [DNSBLWP-18] – Instead of using TorneLIB-curl, use internal WP functions where it is possible
  • [DNSBLWP-21] – Clean up database during deactivation/uninstall
  • [DNSBLWP-22] – Configuration menus
  • [DNSBLWP-25] – Reinstate the commentblock
  • [DNSBLWP-26] – Reinstate page redirection
  • [DNSBLWP-27] – Reinstate listcontrol
  • [DNSBLWP-28] – DNS Lookups in plain mode
  • [DNSBLWP-29] – Currently the lookups is based on API – make it resolver-based when single addresses are being requested
  • [DNSBLWP-31] – Remove test hosts from project
  • [DNSBLWP-32] – Use API instead of DNS when running delisting requests
  • [DNSBLWP-34] – Delist in ajax mode
  • [DNSBLWP-35] – Allow enter in search form (ajax)
  • [DNSBLWP-36] – readme.txt for 2.0

DNSBL Removals might not get any effect

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For a few days ago, our old datastore got obsolete in a few hours, so we moved all data to a new server. It became clear during one manual request of removal, that there might be problems with the database version that the API runs against – so currently we’re working on a fix for this, by for now upgrading to a newer version.

Update: Removals works again!

Rebuilding again, for the sake of NETFILTER

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As Tornevall Networks is still missing a proper CMS, there will be no forward progress for some highly important internal progress, unless there is another way around this (the lack of time is currently big). Some of the projects (NETFILER, amongst some, that was initially – for a few years ago – written to stop spamming) are way too important to hold back furthermore.

A restructure of those projects is upcoming, since the most important functionality at current, are the ability to authorize users to those applications. When this part is on place, we can actually initiate “some kind of” production for the data shares. There is also a huge need of more people and members, that can join and help making this project great!

Join us through the NETFILTER Project site.

DNSBL & FraudBL rule updates

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As of 22 October, we have changed the behaviour of message analyzing.

If a message contains known hosts, discard the message as already listed but reset “deleted”-dates and relist if necessary.

Messages are no longer discarded with a “already listed”. This behaviour was built to save data storage. Data storage is a problem, but we have to live with that even if some cases is automatically solved by our orphan-cleaner (DNSBL-46). So, for each message found as “already listed”, we are incrementing the hostcount. This means that, the more hits from a server the harder rules are applied on the host.

Source: DNSBL-54

Release Notes – DNSBL 5.0.2

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It has been alive for a while, but since we’re starting on v5.0.3 today, here’s also the official release notes for DNSBL 5.0.2

Release Notes – Tornevall Networks DNSBL Project – Version EP-DNSBL-5.0.2

Bugs

  • [DNSBL-27] – When extended information is active and deleted items are shown
  • [DNSBL-47] – Undefined indexes in curl removal tests
  • [DNSBL-51] – API removal allows multiple removals on delisted address and adds penalty if more than one request is sent

Task

  • [DNSBL-26] – Removal tool via http
  • [DNSBL-30] – Permanent deletion of local addresses
  • [DNSBL-32] – Need navbar for DNSBL-web
  • [DNSBL-36] – Removal penalties for returning hosts
  • [DNSBL-37] – Penalty timer reset after 180 days
  • [DNSBL-38] – Penalty timer should show up on delisting-homepage
  • [DNSBL-39] – Release of PenaltyBL
  • [DNSBL-44] – Purge host instead of delist in API