01-Sep-2010

Cleanup

The cleaning job has run last night, and I ran into a timing problem: The operator log has been copied, a new index page was created — after which the logfiles must have been archived. So yesterdays log that could show something on the connection issue, was no longer available on-line.

Update< ./font>:I checked the operlog, and the event shows up:

%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 30-AUG-2010 20:20:49.75 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on DIANA
Message from syslogd@Unknown at Aug 30 19:28:50 ...
Vigor: WAN 1 is down.

%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 30-AUG-2010 20:20:50.20 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on DIANA
Message from syslogd@Unknown at Aug 30 19:28:50 ...
Vigor: WAN 1 is UP.

%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 30-AUG-2010 20:30:23.42 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on DIANA
Message from syslogd@Unknown at Aug 30 19:38:20 ...
Vigor: --SendMailAlert--

The alert didn’t arrive so that is still to be settled in the router.

I would have expected a mail of last month’s mail statistics but that didn’t arrive either, so there is still something wrong.
Update< ./font>: No it’s Ok. It will show up in the log, it isn’t mailed.

Password reset requested?
I got a mail this morning from Twitter, that a new password was requested. Must have been someone else, so I accessed Twitter.com directly and changed my password. All others as well, whereever I could access the pages. But this was my intention anyway.

Update< ./font>: ALL passwords have been changed. The Bootcamp2008 blog seems to have been compromise3d, so it has been disabled – it will now render a 404 error.

Mail statistics
PMAS statistics for August
Total messages    : 9140 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   : 1875 =  20.5 o/o (Files: 31)
Relay attempts    : 5940 =  64.9 o/o (Files: 31)
Processed by PMAS : 1325 =  14.4 o/o (Files: 31)
       Discarded :  139 =  10.4 o/o (processed),   1.5 o/o (all)
    Quarantained :  350 =  26.4 o/o (processed),   3.8 o/o (all)
       Delivered :  836 =  63.0 o/o (processed),   9.1 o/o (all)

More important: on 25-August, there have been – again – a massive amount of relay attempts; the file is 564 blocks in size – 2300 lines alltogether. Second are attempts 10 days earlier, about 2100 times. These files need to be more closely examined, but on first glance, the sender’s address is known. Reason enough to block 126.com and sina.com.

By the way: the license needs to be renewed, it will expire tomorrow.