FlightsForBites.com

Hello! I've been an avid user of the site, it has served me well.
It appears to be down at the moment? Not sure how to contact you outside of this forum.
 
Leyrah said:
Hello! I've been an avid user of the site, it has served me well.
It appears to be down at the moment? Not sure how to contact you outside of this forum.
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Internet outage in my area. I was supposed to WFH today but am now headed into the office after like the sixth drop.
 
I tried adding the Google Maps link for a restaurant at a local airport, but the site didn't like the link I copied from the Google Maps page. It told me that the app only accepts Google Maps links. Well, that's what I offered and it didn't like it. Not a biggy, the restaurant is on the field at KBVS.
 
Here's the GM link copied from that site. Again, the airport was BVS

maps.app.goo.gl

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.
maps.app.goo.gl maps.app.goo.gl
 
Flyhound said:
Here's the GM link copied from that site. Again, the airport was BVS

maps.app.goo.gl

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.
maps.app.goo.gl maps.app.goo.gl
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I added a GM link that works. The app does not recognize "maps.app.goo.gl". I'll update the app when I have time to recognize this domain.
 
@Flyhound, the app now accepts GM URLs like the one you tried to enter. To validate, I updated Skagit Landing restaurant with the URL that gave you trouble.
 
Since 11/25, every day, many times a day, I see many entries like this in the logs, "[warning] An attempt was made to authenticate the locked user"

Is this just expected scanning or should I be worried? This is new in almost 2 years of hosting the site.
 
Welcome to the hostile interwebs. This is a bot that detected you are running tomcat and is most likely attempting to login using the default username/password, which I believe is tomcat/tomcat.
The user is locked because tomcat detected a brute force attack.

If you're still using the default user ("tomcat") I recommend you disable it asap and use another account for admin.

If you check your access logs, I am sure you'll find other attempts at automated entry such as probing for phpmyadmin, wordpress and other common services.
 
@Leyrah, thanks! I changed the UID/PWD during the original install. The administrator interface is also only accessible from the machine itself which made me think I should be seeing a different log message. The current message, to me, implies someone is already on the machine.
 
Good job @Mahneuvers. Been using FFB on this latest trip, and it has definitely surpassed fly2lunch in usefulness. F2L seems to be abandoned at this point.

Went through and reviewed/ corrected everything on my local area, as well as a couple we hit on this trip. Thanks again for the resource.
 
Mahneuvers said:
@Leyrah, thanks! I changed the UID/PWD during the original install. The administrator interface is also only accessible from the machine itself which made me think I should be seeing a different log message. The current message, to me, implies someone is already on the machine.
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AI is taking over....

From now on it's Flights for Bytes!
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I've posted the FlightsForBites.com link before on FB. I did so again today in response to a restaurant question from someone flying from FL to NC. Not sure what's different this time, but, site traffic has been crazy today. And so have been the attempts to hack the server, unfortunately.
 
Mahneuvers said:
Since 11/25, every day, many times a day, I see many entries like this in the logs, "[warning] An attempt was made to authenticate the locked user"

Is this just expected scanning or should I be worried? This is new in almost 2 years of hosting the site.
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Old post, sorry for the lagged reply, but this sorta surprises me. Everytime I poke something out into the big bad internet on port 80, it receives 10s of thousands of script kiddie trash daily, from the jump.
 
schmookeeg said:
....it receives 10s of thousands of script kiddie trash daily...
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Oh. Sure. So my pathetic site is only worth dozens of attacks per day compared to your sites :)

Seriously, having never publicly exposed a site before, I really have no idea what to expect. The messages I see in the logs relate to login in attempts on privileged accounts. You cannot login into these accounts unless you're logged into the server itself, so, I'm somewhat surprised to even see these failed login attempts.

You offered earlier about hosting this site for me. I might take you up on that if there's a chance my basic security measures are insufficient.
 
Mahneuvers said:
Oh. Sure. So my pathetic site is only worth dozens of attacks per day compared to your sites :)

Seriously, having never publicly exposed a site before, I really have no idea what to expect. The messages I see in the logs relate to login in attempts on privileged accounts. You cannot login into these accounts unless you're logged into the server itself, so, I'm somewhat surprised to even see these failed login attempts.

You offered earlier about hosting this site for me. I might take you up on that if there's a chance my basic security measures are insufficient.
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:D

I bet your traffic logs have oodles of 404 and 500 errors from attempts to access common control panel urls, backdoors, and known exploits. Mine all do.

Offer stands, even if just to play around, give a shout whenever :)
 
Thank you for creating it. It's been very useful for me, and I've added a few restaurants in there myself.

Are you interested in popularizing it more? If you come up with a logo/QR code I'd be willing to leave flyers at fuel pumps/FBOs as I travel.
 
AV8R_87 said:
Thank you for creating it. It's been very useful for me, and I've added a few restaurants in there myself.

Are you interested in popularizing it more? If you come up with a logo/QR code I'd be willing to leave flyers at fuel pumps/FBOs as I travel.
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I'm more than happy to do anything to promote the site. However, my intent is to elevate user experience over all else. I'm not interested in making money. So question back to you, is what you're suggesting something to elevate the site amongst the GA community or for some entity to make money?

EDIT: Please understand, I meant no disrespect in my post. I just want to be clear my intent was never to make money. If people find the site useful, great!
 
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Mahneuvers said:
So question back to you, is what you're suggesting something to elevate the site amongst the GA community or for some entity to make money?
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Strictly to popularize the site, it provides a great service for the community. I just wanted to make sure you'd be ok with extra traffic. And if you have logo/card design available, I could print a few and stick them on fuel pumps/FBO boards.
Mahneuvers said:
EDIT: Please understand, I meant no disrespect in my post. I just want to be clear my intent was never to make money. If people find the site useful, great!
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No worries, no misunderstandings on my end.
 
Had to update Hangar 6 at KUVA. Closed due to fire. Expected to reopen at some point.
 
While waxing the plane tonight I had a thought, probably the only one I had today so I'm not sure if it's a good one.

Is there a site on the interwebs for things to do near an airport? Like golf or other activities
 
Racerx said:
While waxing the plane tonight I had a thought, probably the only one I had today so I'm not sure if it's a good one.

Is there a site on the interwebs for things to do near an airport? Like golf or other activities
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lol. what a great idea you have there, never would have thought about something like this............................................................................
 
Racerx said:
While waxing the plane tonight I had a thought, probably the only one I had today so I'm not sure if it's a good one.

Is there a site on the interwebs for things to do near an airport? Like golf or other activities
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I've always said, PoA could really do well with a wiki.
 
Racerx said:
While waxing the plane tonight I had a thought, probably the only one I had today so I'm not sure if it's a good one.

Is there a site on the interwebs for things to do near an airport? Like golf or other activities
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Google.com
 
The site has been making me so much money I didn't want to change anything!

Seriously, maybe this winter I'll implement some enhancements. I had thought first up was a graphical map of the route with pins on airports with restaurants meeting the selection criteria.
 
Mahneuvers said:
…..Seriously, maybe this winter I'll implement some enhancements. I had thought first up was a graphical map of the route with pins on airports with restaurants meeting the selection criteria.
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Like make it mandatory that everyone has to post a pic of the food they ordered.
 
Mahneuvers said:
I'm definitely adding an onion ring rating supporting, for example, finding rings rated 4 or above within 50 miles
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There’s a local restaurant that stopped doing onion rings for the stupidest reason. They were great. So popular the restaurant couldn’t keep up with the demand.
 
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