10-Mar-2010

Spam source(s) unwired ?
yesterday’s surprise:
61 messages have been received yesterday; 11 have been delivered and 7 discarded. None has been quarantained and the rest (53) has been rejected anyway because of their presence in a blacklist, or because their score was way too high (> 200). Most numbers are rather normal, but none quarantained is remarkable.

Router issues
The new router allows two WAN connections, but the second one shares it’s outlet with one of the LAN ports. Here, I ran into a problem: when the printer is connected to this port, a static route is added to the route-table, and this causes a problem when a system on the LAN tries to access the internet – but existing connections seem to have no problem at all). This behaviour is shown in one of the diagnostic screens. The situation can only be reversed by removing the physical connection and reboot the router.
This has been communicated to Draytek, they have looked into it but said it should just work. But it doesn’t – and I tested it again, taking screendumps from what I’ve seen and sent it over to them. Now it’s just a matter of waiting on their reply. The problem is that I cannot tell – from the LAN – whether incoming traffic is also effected. It may well be, and therefore I cannot risk being locked out for some time.

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