Maintenance and updates
Know since last post, there is a new version of WordPress, that I installed prior to this entry. No issues, as to be expected (so far).
Last maintenance job had no surprises:
PMAS statistics for July
Total messages : 2375 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted : 0 = .0 o/o (Files: 0)
Relay attempts : 485 = 20.4 o/o (Files: 31)
Accepted by PMAS : 1890 = 79.5 o/o (Files: 31)
Handled by explicit rule
Rejected : 1469 = 77.7 o/o (processed), 61.8 o/o (all)
Accepted : 91 = 4.8 o/o (processed), 3.8 o/o (all)
Handled by content
Discarded : 189 = 10.0 o/o (processed), 7.9 o/o (all)
Quarantained : 126 = 6.6 o/o (processed), 5.3 o/o (all)
Delivered : 15 = .7 o/o (processed), .6 o/o (all)
Just two days of over 150 relay attempts – from addresses owned by Hostwinds.com (USA) – as ususal trying a random choice of “users” in the grootersnet.nl domain, sending to 1029mandaditos@gmail.com:
There has been another one this time:
Again, using non-existing users in my domain,. but this one seems to think this is a business site, The ‘users’ attemptes were possible departments and (presubaly privileged) users (some several times in a row), all trying to reach pastarleastan@gmail.com:
webmaster, postmaster, admin, backup, canon, contact, copier, mail, marketing, test1, test2, info, office, prueba, reception, root, sales, scanner, service, support, teste, vendas, warehouse and Xerox
There is some controiversy on this address when observing it via Robtex.com:
95.216.32.207
whois
D2 Internet Investment Ukraine ETTH broadband
route
95.216.0.0/16
bgp
AS24940
asname
HETZNER-AS
descr
Dummy description for 95.216.0.0/16AS43659
location
Ukraine
ptr
static.207.32.216.95.clients.your-server.de
a
95.216.32.207
Could it be a hacked DNS server in Ukraine??
Certificates updated
All certificates *except still for www.grootersnet.nl) have been updates successfully – twice: on 2-Aug-2018 I got the mails for the sites, and on 3-aug-2018 again. I didn’t expect the second ones to appear, since the day before the certificates have been renewed already, and should have been moved to thir location;
FULLCHAIN_GENEALOGY_GROOTERSNET_NL.PEM;5
2-AUG-2018 00:20:15.24
FULLCHAIN_HOMEDESK_GROOTERSNET_NL.PEM;5
2-AUG-2018 00:20:32.67
FULLCHAIN_WEBMAIL_GROOTERSNET_NL.PEM;6
2-AUG-2018 00:20:55.50
But these do not exist in the location where they are created – there are the ones created a day later:
FULLCHAIN_GENEALOGY_GROOTERSNET_NL.PEM;5
3-AUG-2018 00:20:15.41
FULLCHAIN_HOMEDESK_GROOTERSNET_NL.PEM;5
3-AUG-2018 00:20:30.39
FULLCHAIN_WEBMAIL_GROOTERSNET_NL.PEM;6
3-AUG-2018 00:20:45.02
Well, that may be the reason for the second run: if no files reside in there, they will be (re)created. However, these files have not been copied to the final destination …
Well, it works so this is not a high priority issue. Just check WCME_LOAD: script to see if files are copied and after that, removed. That stap is not needed…
Bringing nodejs to VMS?
At work, colleagues are creating a web application using nodejs (https://nodejs.org) and I thought it a good idea to have this on VmS as well. After all, what OS is more suited for storing and accessing sensitive data the OpenVMS? However, you’ll need the tooling that is available on aother platforms as well. There is webserver (Apache, WASD (preferred), PHP, MariaDB … so why not node.js?
At first glance, there are a “few” challenges, because node.js has dependencies – quite a lot – that need to be ported as well. One of whci is Google’s a javascript engine V8. (Being part of Chrome browser – why not port Chrome to VMS (just a thought)).
I’ll see how this enfolds. No real plans – yet.
Speaking of which: I mentioned I got new versions of Mosquitto and paho, but I ran into some issues with the libraries: Some functionality seems to be missing – in particular the asynchronous sending and receiving. But I hope to tackle that soon.