01-Feb-2009

Monthly maintenance
New month = archive last month’s logs. But first get some stats.
Mail, for instance.
PMAS statistics for January
Total messages    : 3371 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   : 2228 =  66.0 o/o (Files: 31)
Relay attempts    :  110 =   3.2 o/o (Files: 31)
Processed by PMAS : 1033 =  30.6 o/o (Files: 31)
        Discarded :  326 =  31.5 o/o (processed),&   9.6 o/o (all)
     Quarantained :  241 =  23.3 o/o (processed),   7.1 o/o (all)
        Delivered :  466 =  45.1 o/o (processed),&  13.8 o/o (all)

Not much of a surprise, expect the amount of relay attempts. Quite a lot this month: On 12th of january, the majority of requests came from one address (190.28.174.170) and WHOS information shows it’s located in Colombia:

$ whois 190.28.174.170
----Server: whois.arin.net [AMERICAS] redirects to whois.lacnic.net
----Server: whois.lacnic.net [LATIN AMERICA] response for 190.28.174.170
% Joint Whois - whois.lacnic.net
%  This server accepts single ASN, IPv4 or IPv6 queries
% LACNIC resource: whois.lacnic.net
% Copyright LACNIC lacnic.net
%  The data below is provided for information purposes
%  and to assist persons in obtaining information about or
%  related to AS and IP numbers registrations
%  By submitting a whois query, you agree to use this data
%  only for lawful purposes.
%  2009-02-01 18:39:58 (BRST -02:00)

inetnum:     190.28/16
status:      allocated
owner:       EPM Telecomunicaciones S.A. E.S.P.
ownerid:     CO-EPME1-LACNIC
responsible: Administrador EPMNET
address:     Carrera 77 39b-16, -, -
address:     940 - Medellin - CO
country:     CO
phone:       +57 4 4152280 []
owner-c:     YGO2
tech-c:      YGO2
abuse-c:     YGO2
inetrev:     190.28/16
nserver:     LAUTA.UNE.NET.CO
nsstat:      20090130 AA
nslastaa:    20090130
nserver:     BIRLOCHA.UNE.NET.CO
nsstat:      20090130 AA
nslastaa:    20090130
created:     20070102
changed:     20070102

All requests seem to refer to one domain: cyrilscott.com, but somewhat different users.

The other bigger one comes from a presumed Hotmail address, but the server resides in Taiwan and has nothing to do with Hotmail;All attempts on 22-Jan:

$ whois 118.167.137.77
----Server: whois.arin.net [AMERICAS] redirects to whois.apnic.net
----Server: whois.apnic.net [ASIA PACIFIC] response for 118.167.137.77
% [whois.apnic.net node-1]
% Whois data copyright terms    http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
inetnum:      118.160.0.0 - 118.167.255.255
netname:      HINET-NET
country:      TW
descr:        CHTD, Chunghwa Telecom Co.,Ltd.
descr:        DataBldg.6F, No.21, Sec.21, Hsin-Yi Rd.
descr:        Taipei Taiwan 100
admin-c:      HN27-AP
tech-c:       HN28-AP
status:       ALLOCATED PORTABLE
mnt-by:       MAINT-TW-TWNIC
mnt-lower:    MAINT-TW-TWNIC
mnt-routes:   MAINT-TW-TWNIC
changed:      hm-changed@apnic.net 20071004
source:       APNIC

IE8.0 trouble
On the alternate system I installed the beta of InternetExplorer 8. It does work but as it turned out, McAfee securityy center seems to rely on specific code and didn’t show up – as was noted on their support site. Now I have RC1 installed and that problem is now gone. But it seems this has some other issues: The Trips,Tracks, and Travels blog refuses to show the header image; login problems with both blogs appear once in a while – That is: the sysblog login works fine but the TTT-one doesn’t.
However, now working on the Ubuntu installtion (using Foirefox 3.0.5) both seem to work fine. Except for autosave, but again that seems to be a PHP issue.

Not so for PHPMyAdmin that still fails dramatically. But that surely has to do with PHP 5.0 running MySQL4.0 engine.

Other trouble
Editing has some nasty issues: Linebreaks etcetera that don’t show on the right spots, so the view can be somewhat distorted. I’m also unable to switch editor type when editing an existing post, like this one. Though the screen seems to extend (there is a horizontal drawbar on the bottom) the window won’t stretch rightward. Again, this may be a PHP issue. Firefox complains that “Query(“#caregory-tabs”).tabs is not a function”, and that “tinyMCE is not defined.” . Javascript errors, it seems. Again: PHP issues, or browser ones?