Posted on

10-Mar-2010

Spam source(s) unwired ?
yesterday’s surprise:
61 messages have been received yesterday; 11 have been delivered and 7 discarded. None has been quarantained and the rest (53) has been rejected anyway because of their presence in a blacklist, or because their score was way too high (> 200). Most numbers are rather normal, but none quarantained is remarkable.

Router issues
The new router allows two WAN connections, but the second one shares it’s outlet with one of the LAN ports. Here, I ran into a problem: when the printer is connected to this port, a static route is added to the route-table, and this causes a problem when a system on the LAN tries to access the internet – but existing connections seem to have no problem at all). This behaviour is shown in one of the diagnostic screens. The situation can only be reversed by removing the physical connection and reboot the router.
This has been communicated to Draytek, they have looked into it but said it should just work. But it doesn’t – and I tested it again, taking screendumps from what I’ve seen and sent it over to them. Now it’s just a matter of waiting on their reply. The problem is that I cannot tell – from the LAN – whether incoming traffic is also effected. It may well be, and therefore I cannot risk being locked out for some time.

Posted on

01-Mar-2010

Maintenance
PMAS statistics for February
Total messages    : 3355 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   : 1653 =  49.2 o/o (Files: 28)
Relay attempts    :  487 =  14.5 o/o (Files: 28)
Processed by PMAS : 1215 =  36.2 o/o (Files: 28)
       Discarded :  173 =  14.2 o/o (processed),   5.1 o/o (all)
    Quarantained :  341 =  28.0 o/o (processed),  10.1 o/o (all)
       Delivered :  701 =  57.6 o/o (processed),  20.8 o/o (all)
This does not include the messages that slipped the filter – about 10 last month. But the amount of mail has been lower last month, there have been days with far less messages alltogether. For the rest, nothing particular; except that I have deleted the bogus users from the openVMS wiki (none have apeared since the last one – yet): clear the directory vmswikiroot:[mywiki.data.cache.__common__.session] and all files in vmswikiroot:[mywiki.data.user] that contained their information. And I also removed really old files (kept since July 2008 – there is no need to hold these backup’s :))
VPN works
Using an unsecured network at the office (mainly to allow guests access the Internet) AND disabling IPSec, the VPS connection works – very well. IPSec should work as well, but that’s another etst.