I managed to get QuickTime Streaming Server (actually Darwin Streaming Server) and QuickTime Broadcaster running between my laptop and a slow old G3.

I’ll post notes at some point after I’ve had some more time to play with it and I’m sure everything works. The biggest challenges were skirting my own firewall and working around my ISP’s block on port 80. Otherwise it wasn’t too difficult, just somewhat poorly documented.

Several of my sites were getting their referer logs spammed by porn sites. A little snooping through the logs revealed that all the spam, 50-400 hits a day, was coming from a single machine:

 tom1.xcite.net (216.169.111.198)

Others have also noticed spam from this IP.

I thought about writing a letter to xcite.net, but after calling them (no one answered) and googling them, I decided it would be pointless. My solution was to use Apache’s Mod_Rewrite to redirect requests from that IP address. Instead of just denying access, I decided to forward their requests back to xcite’s servers. Here are the two lines I added to my root htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^216\.169\.111\.198$
RewriteRule /*$ http://www.xcite.net [R] 

That should end the problem without screwing anything else up. Not a perfect solution, but better than turning off the referer pages.

Update: According to my raw server logs, the spamming machine tried to hit my site again today at 3:20 and 10:30. Apparently everything worked and 122 accesses were redirected back to xcite.net.

Update 2: Apparently Charles at Little Green Footballs was also getting hit with a similar attack.