Posted on

11-Dec-2017

WordPress update
As stated on my last post, there is a new WordPress version: Just installed it, so now running WP 4.9.1.

Not related (because I’ve seen this before:

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I know there are some issues with timing, probably, especially in the admin environment (normal user is slow as well, but admin is worse….) Artea for investigation – but without the PHP code it will be hard to locate the problem. (There is no good way to debug the WP code…).
Changed some parameters in php.ini, see if that helps….

Posted on

02-Dec-2017

All the same
Once more, no surprises in the monthly maintenance job. The vast majority of mail has been rejected on explicit rules, or by the content:

PMAS statistics for November
Total messages    :   4463 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :      0 =    .0 o/o (Files:  0)
Relay attempts    :    622 =  13.9 o/o (Files: 30)
Accepted by PMAS  :   3841 =  86.0 o/o (Files: 30)
  Handled by explicit rule
         Rejected :   3024 =  78.7 o/o (processed),  67.7 o/o (all)
         Accepted :    187 =   4.8 o/o (processed),   4.1 o/o (all)
  Handled by content
        Discarded :    423 =  11.0 o/o (processed),   9.4 o/o (all)
     Quarantained :    183 =   4.7 o/o (processed),   4.1 o/o (all)
        Delivered :     24 =    .6 o/o (processed),    .5 o/o (all)

The number of relay attemps have been larger this month, especially on 5th, 16th and 30th – all files contained almost 180 attempts, and I found the attempts originated from two networks, both leading to Hostwinds1 in Tulsa (US), trying a fake grootersnet.nl user sending to 1029mandaditos@gmail.com:

  • 5-NOV-2017 03:23:11.22 – 03:26:33.68 (175 attempts from 104.168.146.254)
  • 16-NOV-2017 20:04:23.00 – 20:12:07.85 (178 attempts from 23.254.164.233)
  • 30-NOV-2017 00:22:01.61 – 00:58:39.57 (187 attempts from 23.254.165.119)

    • Hostwinds.com has been notified of this, and the networks have been excluded for access – in the router – for some time. I’ll keep an eye on these addresses.

    Next WP update pending 🙂