Delayed – again
This time due to the annual summer holiday. But the save- and scan jobs have done their job properly:
PMAS statistics for May
Total messages : 3570 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted : 223 = 6.2 o/o (Files: 31)
Relay attempts : 2557 = 71.6 o/o (Files: 31)
Accepted by PMAS : 790 = 22.1 o/o (Files: 31)
Handled by explicit rule
Rejected : 133 = 16.8 o/o (processed), 3.7 o/o (all)
Accepted : 286 = 36.2 o/o (processed), 8.0 o/o (all)
Handled by content
Discarded : 107 = 13.5 o/o (processed), 2.9 o/o (all)
Quarantained : 234 = 29.6 o/o (processed), 6.5 o/o (all)
Delivered : 30 = 3.7 o/o (processed), .8 o/o (all)
The absolute number of messages is significantly lower than the last months – about 40% – but the relative number of processed messages isn’t much different. Pity Pmas doesn’t count the number of rejected messages (‘Who would want to know?’ Well, I would – just for the record, and their addresses 🙂 – but that would imply a LARGE logfile per day, potentially. Anyway: I’ll post a request for it ).
There have been some DoS attempts on the address, but less than last month, at least, less are logged. Some are obviously originating from Kapser’s PS3; possibly some try to ping to that system, but the ports are not opened. No problem as long as he can play his multi-player games :).
No other problems, just a few drops of the WAN connection last month causing loss of one route: the one to the gateway at the provider. Easy to get by, since I can reboot the router from anyware. But in the two-and-a-half week there have been no drops of connectivity, nor power drops. Things may run without a problem, for a change.
I’ll download new patches this week, and probably install them in the weekend. That could also imply an update of the webserver and related software – inclusing a content management system by the same author. But that needs to be worked out before.
Problem is – once again – time. I ould like to re-order the site but that means development – on another system. It does exist – but it’s not accessable yet from outside, nor is it switched on permanently. And I need to setup some things on that one as well – MySQL, for instance, and WordPress needs to be updated there as well (now running 3.1 where 3.1.3 is current). And there are the photographs and tracks of the last holiday that needs to be processed – inclusing even older tracks…..
Adding up:
Fiber being installed
Finally.
The fiber cable has been installed weeks ago, but tomorrow the modem will be installed. Next I’ll have to finish the cabling. That is: most cables have been placed but the connectors still need to be attached. After that, I can gradually move on: first TV (analogue, digital and HD), next obtain a new fixed IP address; inform my current ISP of the new address so it can be included in DNS, and enable the 50 Mb connection (both ways!). When that works, switch off ADSL at that provider – but keep DNS and other services, like mail backup, the new provider doesn;t provide these services; move my telephone connection to fiber and quit the current phone provider…
The whole operation to be completed this year – if possible.
In other words: to be continued….
Another Win7Pro box
The normal workstation, that was running XP, have now been legally upgraded to Windows7 Professional, but here I used the 32-bit version since this machine doesn’t support 64-bit software, according the upgrade wizard. And since this box holds just over 3Gb of memory, there is no ground for installing a 64-bit OS anyway.
On this machine, I installed Kaspersky anti-virus – since McAfee keeps complaining about yet another system in overdraft, by counting each re-install as a new system to pay for – even when it’s on the same box…
Nonsense….