Great. First the site was down, now I’m getting this genius: host-207-248-240-118.block.alestra.net.mx (207.248.240.118) spamming me with linkspam via referer. He’s been persistently hitting the same URL only to throw his junk referrers in there. He’s got quite a lot of them too, many apparently online pharmacy link farms, such as this one: hpsstudent.com .

I tried blocking him via the apache Deny directive, which worked fine when I denied myself, but had no effect on this guy. Then I tried blocking him at the linux level with:

/sbin/route add -host 207.248.240.118 reject

and that seems to have worked.

I’ve noticed each time my site’s pagerank goes up I get a new set of attacks and junk to deal with. Joy.