telnet.jws.dev changelog
Posts, changelogs, and a harder shell
The telnet site now carries the posts written for jws.dev and each project’s changelog, letters wait for Enter, and the server is stricter with abusive clients.
Two more of the API’s collections come through. The posts written for jws.dev are there, with their photographs described in words, and each project links to its changelog. Letters no longer act the moment they’re typed: the prompt doubles as a search box, so a search for “quebec” used to disconnect you. Everything but paging now waits for Enter.
Because port 23 gets scanned constantly, the server also got stricter. Its limits on each address are counted per /64 for IPv6, so rotating through a block of addresses doesn’t get around them; a client that connects and never says anything is hung up on after two minutes; and a session that sends commands as fast as the socket allows is slowed down. A new tool attacks the server in nine different ways and fails if any of them works.