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BLUG Tasks

Migration 2026

System

  • Automatic, encrypted backups to Amazon S3

DNS

  • Publish SSH fingerprints via DNS.
  • Enable CAA with pinned Let's Encrypt account key.
  • Publish HTTPS certificate fingerprints via DNS, implement secure automatic updates (difficult).
  • Publish XMPP certificate fingerprints via DNS, implement secure automatic updates (difficult).
  • Advertise Alt-Svc support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3.

TCP

  • [✓ shenmedouxing, 2026-09-21]Enable ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) and TCP BBR in Git repo.
  • Enable Firewall using the VPS provider's settings (not nftables, to save CPU)

HTTP

  • [✓ shenmedouxing, 2026-09-21]Add all server names used by ACME challenges to Nginx in Git
  • [✓ shenmedouxing, 2026-09-21]Fix Nginx's missing 80/443 port listens in Git
  • [✓ shenmedouxing, 2026-09-21]Fix a TLS certificate renewal script bug.
  • [✓ shenmedouxing, 2026-09-21]Enable HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 (QUIC)
  • Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)
  • Test classical Diffie-Hellman for DoS Resistance (DHEat Attack)
  • Update outdated Tor hidden services

PHP

  • WordPress and DokuWiki accounts should have password resets.
  • Inactive historical accounts should be disabled or deleted.
  • Abuse of superuser accounts should be avoided.
  • WordPress should deploy caching to prevent the "Slashdot" effect, this is especially important in the era of clawers, benchmark needed via Apache <code>ab</code>.
  • Audit Web pages for cookies and 3rd-party resources, proxy or remove them.
  • DokuWiki needs to implement anti-spam, spambots are already flooding in within a day after the server goes back online.
  • Delete over 1000 spam accounts in DokuWiki, without affecting legitimate accounts.
  • Rate-limit CPU intensive WordPress PHP pages

IRC

  • Forwarding between LiberaChat and OFTC should be restored.
  • Forwarding should be hosted on the server on a system daemon.

SMTP

  • Outgoing port 25 traffic is blocked, circumvent SMTP blocking by hosting provider through a commercial or self-hosted relay
  • OpenSMTPD standard compliance (rDNS, DKIM, SPF, DMARC).
  • SMTP forwarding test (root/webmaster/abuse/security) to maintainers.
  • SMTP sending test (needed for PHP registration, password resets)
  • SMTP TLS hardening (PQC, TLSv1.3, disable session ticket)
  • SMTP should be tested for spam resistance, if root@ receives spam and it's forwarded, the server must not be blocked by Gmail for spam.

XMPP

  • XMPP should publish abuse contacts
  • XEP compliance tests
  • [✓ shenmedouxing, 2026-09-22]Implement XMPP over HTTP (BOSH), commit changes to Git.
  • Implement XMPP over Websocket, commit changes to Git.
  • <code>ircbindxmpp</code> and <code>chatlist</code> should be retested for startup timing and crash recovery
  • <code>ircbindxmpp</code> should use SASL External, with automatic certificate generation on first startup.
  • Re-open registration, with mod_firewall and a custom bot to prevent spam

Standard Maintenance tasks

  • XMPP Server adopts more XEPs
  • Security Check
  • Warrant Canary

Historical

Following are the projects that needs contributor!

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