Just the ordinary
Again, there is nothing special in the system.
PMAS statistics for June
Total messages : 1893 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted : 0 = .0 o/o (Files: 0)
Relay attempts : 264 = 13.9 o/o (Files: 30)
Accepted by PMAS : 1629 = 86.0 o/o (Files: 30)
Handled by explicit rule
Rejected : 800 = 49.1 o/o (processed), 42.2 o/o (all)
Accepted : 212 = 13.0 o/o (processed), 11.1 o/o (all)
Handled by content
Discarded : 239 = 14.6 o/o (processed), 12.6 o/o (all)
Quarantained : 195 = 11.9 o/o (processed), 10.3 o/o (all)
Delivered : 183 = 11.2 o/o (processed), 9.6 o/o (all)
There were just a few reay attempts causing the logfile to grow over the limit:
- 5.135.219.26 (38 attempts). The only information I could find on this address is that is seems to be located in France. It tries (bogus) addresses of my domain (the only real one is www.grootersnet.nl) and the attempt was made to connect to a gmail mail server.
- 208.100.26.230 (16 attemps) but given the sender and addressee used, I think this is a test to see if the mail server is an open array. (It isn’t). The address refers to a hosting company in the USA (Chicago area), and the company that is hosted there, seems to work on QR-codes (ScanMe.org doesn’t own a website, ScanMe.com does)
- 4.222.41.220 (101 attempts) seems to be a dial-up connection to a server near Wichita (Kansas), so there is no further information.
Since these are simply ‘just a try’ – the number of attempts is relatively low and do not reoccur – I leave it. For now.
Funny: On Windows 10, the Edge browser will highlight the first two as links – and offers Chrome to open them :). Show in Internet Explorer shows the data as it is intended.)
Pending Updates
I have to update WordPress, but for the lastest version PHP 5.6 (that I downloaded and installed) is recommended, as well as MySQL 5.6 or MariaDB 10.0. It should word with PHP 5.0.4 (I curently run 5.2.13) and MySQL 5.5: that I’m using for several years now,
For mySQL, I will have to stick to MySQL 5.5 (or MariaDb 5.5) since there is no recent update of MySQL on VMS (HP won’t fund any attempt) nor has Mark Berryman updated his port of mariaDB.
The previous update (to WordPress 4.3) failed, so I wonder what will happen with this one. I’ll do WP first, than PHP; is has no implications on the blog itself (I hope).
Another update is the webserver (WASD) to 11.0.1 – and that will be a piece of cake. As usual.
Router problem?
The Vigor router has a problem, I think. Although I have disabled any limit (there is no need to limit access), the router complains about exceeding the maximum number of allowed connections. At times not just from the LAN, outside connections get the same error as well. It seems the router doesn’t free disconnected channels, the server has not that much open connectons.. The only solution is a reboot of the router.
This time, I needed anyway, because I updated the servre firmware. But probably I’ll have to reboot the router regularly; it has a schedule option but I need to dig into the manuals first. If possible, this will of course be scheduled at a quit time.