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PMAS statistics for November
Total messages : 11696 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted : 0 = .0 o/o (Files: 0)
Relay attempts : 8705 = 74.4 o/o (Files: 30)
Accepted by PMAS : 2991 = 25.5 o/o (Files: 30)
Handled by explicit rule
Rejected : 2024 = 67.6 o/o (processed), 17.3 o/o (all)
Accepted : 181 = 6.0 o/o (processed), 1.5 o/o (all)
Handled by content
Discarded : 387 = 12.9 o/o (processed), 3.3 o/o (all)
Quarantained : 371 = 12.4 o/o (processed), 3.1 o/o (all)
Delivered : 28 = .9 o/o (processed), .2 o/o (all)
There have been – as usual – quite a few relay attempts. These were the major ones:
5-Nov
17:47:45.59 - 21:19:19.48
14.221.222.134 ptvye@grootersnet.nl xiaonanzi11165@vip.126.com 2118
21:24:49.47 - 21:49:35.06
14.221.222.180 vxbmq@grootersnet.nl xiaonanzi11165@vip.163.com 239
11-Nov
21:47:52.46 - 00:00:41.93
113.102.246.237 gjl@grootersnet.nl xiaonanzi11165@vip.126.com 1348
12-Nov
00:00:47.73 - 01:43:56.1
113.102.246.237 iln@grootersnet.nl xiaonanzi11165@vip.163.com 1053
19-Nov
00:29:21.94 - 04:19:05.60
113.102.245.96 suwaf@grootersnet.nl xiaonanzi11165@vip.163.com 2196
22-Nov
23:29:11.59 - 23:59:59.29
14.221.222.248 suwbf@grootersnet.nl xiaonanzi11165@vip.163.com 319
23-Nov
00:00:05.30 -02:15:06.08 14.221.222.248
svyce@grootersnet.nl jijing667@163.com 1273
Both ranges refer to Chinese sites – that are now blocked in the router. (this works fine because other subnets I already blocked, don’t show up here anymore).
There have been some “test” runs that seem legitimate, but I still need to check on these; and there are new kids on the block, I have to check on these we well, because I’m not certain whether fromdomain@outlook.com is a source or destination
MQTT
On the VMS Bootcamp, a VSI engineer (Brett Cameron) and a Consultant (Robert Nydahl) presented a PoC of an application using the MQTT protocol – used to pass information via a server to mobile device (for instance. Any device can run an application using this protocol). This is interesting stuff, because it offers a load of possibilities to be notified about anything. Fun part is it can aslo be used the other way around, and I see good use for it. So I asked Brett for examples, and though he had it tested on Itanium, I got it working – without any change – on Alpha, as he stated. I still have to set up a few things to get to work on something useful, but I do have some ideas.