10-Oct-2013

Nothing special
A bit later than expected – but last week we were on a short holiday and today is the first opportunity to check the last clearance job.
Apart from the mail issue last month, there is nothing exceptional:
PMAS statistics for September
Total messages    :   1902 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :    675 =  35.4 o/o (Files: 30)
Relay attempts    :     81 =   4.2 o/o (Files: 25)
Accepted by PMAS  :   1146 =  60.2 o/o (Files: 28)
  Handled by explicit rule
         Rejected :    583 =  50.8 o/o (processed),  30.6 o/o (all)
         Accepted :    210 =  18.3 o/o (processed),  11.0 o/o (all)
  Handled by content
        Discarded :    132 =  11.5 o/o (processed),   6.9 o/o (all)
     Quarantained :    201 =  17.5 o/o (processed),  10.5 o/o (all)
        Delivered :     20 =   1.7 o/o (processed),   1.0 o/o (all)
The few days that PMAS was out of order (that’s why there were only 28 files to handle the rejections) were not included. The amount that was missed that time is estimated to about 1100 from one address alone, and about half of the second one – all from the beginning of September and I didn’t count the thousands that came in a few weeks later. These are just exceptions: the number of messages has decreased from almost 11.000 a year ago to about 2000 in the last months.
I will need to investigate the router log files for proof, but my feeling is that since I blocked several – mainly .cn – networks from accessing the local network altogether, the amount of attempts to abuse the system in mail (both messages and relay), FTP and web has dropped. (the abilities for controlling traffic amd logging of the Draytek Vigor routers are the main the reasons I don’t use the Fritzbox as delivered by my ISP).
This month there was just one day with a higher amount of attempts of relay: on 30-Sep-2013; but 81 is not exceptional either…
New WASD version
A new version of the webserver has been released, I wil do an update (including some related some related stuff as well).