Posted on

15-Dec-2014

“This is no SPAM”

The message tells me I can win a 500 Euro price, and it tells me that ”
“This message is sent to diy@infomusica-media.com and cannot be considered SPAM as is stated clearly by the sender. The recepient change or change his data”.

Literally:

Dit bericht wordt naar diy@infomusica-media.com gestuurd en kan niet
worden beschouwd als “SPAM”,
zoals duidelijk wordt geïdentificeerd door de afzender.
De ontvanger kan op elk gewenst moment de correctie of cancellation
van zijn gegevens

Deze nieuwsbrief is een dienst van Promo News, Av. de Berna, n º 31, 2 º dt º, 1050-038 Lisboa – Portugal
Afmelden voor deze lijst, klik dan hier

I TOTALLY disagree, as does PMAS:

X-PMAS-External: x68-170.retracka.com [91.126.168.170] (EHLO
x68-170.retracka.com)
X-PMAS-Software: PreciseMail V3.2-5 [141213a] (diana.intra.grootersnet.nl)
X-PMAS-REPUTATION_URI_NONSPAM: URI reputation check (0.000)
X-PMAS-VMF-OK: Envelope FROM: check: Source accepts mail for address (0.000)
X-PMAS-HDR-QP_ENCODED_SUBJECT: Subject line is quoted-printable-encoded
(0.000)
X-PMAS-HDR-FROM_INFO: Message is from a .info domain (1.500)
X-PMAS-URI-INFO_TLD1: Contains a URL in the INFO top-level domain (1.500)
X-PMAS-META-PRIORITY_NO_NAME: Message has priority setting, but no X-Mailer
(0.586)
X-PMAS-META-GET_OR_RECEIVE_02: Subject says you can get or receive something
(2.000)
X-PMAS-META-SUBJ_CLAIM_WIN: Subject suggests you can win or get something free
(4.000)
X-PMAS-META-CLICK_BELOW: Asks you to click below (2.000)
X-PMAS-Final-Score: 11.586
X-PMAS-Spam-Level: ***********
X-PMAS-Spam: Yes
X-Auto-Response-Suppress: OOF
X-PMAS-Quarantined: PreciseMail

DIY == Do It Yourself :). infomusica-media.com is a dummy domain, or is hacked. Accessing the site gives nonthing more as “coming soon”. but the address show is the same:

Infomusica Media
Av. David Mourão Ferreira, Lt 15.5C, Esc.B
1750-209 Lisboa – Portugal
diy@infomusica-media.com
Tel.: +351 21 753 07 10

but there is nothing likewise in the header:

Return-Path: Ym91bmNlZC0hLSEtd2lsbGVtPT1ncm9vdGVyc25ldC5ubC0hLSEtMzgzMTgxLSEtIS0xMjY1LSEtIS1wcm9tbz09YWxkYW5pdGkubmV0@aldaniti.net
Received: from DIANA.INTRA.GROOTERSNET.NL (192.168.0.2)
by diana.intra.grootersnet.nl (V5.7-ECO4, OpenVMS V8.4 Alpha);
Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:09:36 +0000 (UTC)
X-PMAS-MAIL-FROM:
Ym91bmNlZC0hLSEtd2lsbGVtPT1ncm9vdGVyc25ldC5ubC0hLSEtMzgzMTgxLSEtIS0xMjY1LSEtIS1wcm9tbz09YWxkYW5pdGkubmV0@aldaniti.net
Received: from x68-170.retracka.com ([91.126.168.170] EXTERNAL) (EHLO
x68-170.retracka.com) by diana.INTRA.GROOTERSNET.NL ([192.168.0.200])
(PreciseMail V3.2-5); Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:00:59 +0000
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:00:57 +0100
DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.8.4 x68-170.retracka.com 86E8DA8C1A1B
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=real-dance.info;
s=smtp; t=1418659257; bh=XKN39jPtwuPrq+8MbQr6Ot142HmwDSW+/yfpgw0IFuI=;
h=List-Unsubscribe:To:From:Reply-to:Subject;
b=kZR5SL8BRzZjUUH5HTsoD3VyySSZGvwtfIFmP2d2+QyihrAFr+kqCJkAU0nS3AkKV
cepV0C0p8GEeR/1pBOp3b4myp3wx2gLcHMdxIEqC5RGoasDfQQCs551VOx/RdpsVKK
P5dSCYmnttLxByWC2eM9hD2ArMJrNx2BTYbPXqXI=
List-Unsubscribe:

To: willem@grootersnet.nl
From: Elise
Reply-to: mail@real-dance.info
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Win_een_waardebon_van_=E2=82=AC500?=
Sender: promo@aldaniti.net
Message-ID:

X-Priority: 3
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="b1_50484e59db984aea18871e49f42e4233"

In Other words: BULLSHIT

Posted on

05-Dec-2015

Setting up the testbed
Installed MySQL, PHP and Apache on Leona – the new Linux machine – , but there is still some configuration to do. In the mean time, I installed the WP versions that may be needed, if update from 2,6,5 to 4.0.1 in one go doesn work.
I also dowloaded FileZilla – it seems to be the latest version on nthe site (FileZilla.org) but I cannot het it to work:

[root@Leona ~]# alias filezilla="/usr/etc/FileZilla3/bin/filezilla"
[root@Leona ~]# filezilla
/usr/etc/FileZilla3/bin/filezilla: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (required by /usr/etc/FileZilla3/bin/filezilla)

Checked what is installed:
The libstdc++ package contains a rewritten standard compliant GCC Standard C++ Library.

That’s Ok, but the version isn’t: libstdc++-4.4.7-11.el6 (i686)

Absurd.

One of those reasons I dislike Linux….

But I should be able to use FireFox as well. But without anything (Iḿ not sure how to do it on the URL) I end up in the anonymous FTP location. Thatś fine in itself, but I need to get elsewhere, so I found an extension. It works – but cannot connect to VMS or IBM – yet.

Ok, just install the regular old-fashioned FTP-client…Found gFTP – a graphical interface. It took some experrimenta but it seemed to work – but couldn’t retrieve the filenames…

Posted on

04-Dec-2014

Regular maintenance
No problems:
PMAS statistics for November
Total messages    :   1530 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :      0 =    .0 o/o (Files:  0)
Relay attempts    :    293 =  19.1 o/o (Files: 30)
Accepted by PMAS  :   1237 =  80.8 o/o (Files: 30)
  Handled by explicit rule
         Rejected :    609 =  49.2 o/o (processed),  39.8 o/o (all)
         Accepted :    319 =  25.7 o/o (processed),  20.8 o/o (all)
  Handled by content
        Discarded :    128 =  10.3 o/o (processed),   8.3 o/o (all)
     Quarantained :    119 =   9.6 o/o (processed),   7.7 o/o (all)
        Delivered :     62 =   5.0 o/o (processed),   4.0 o/o (all)
except that on one day, the number of relay attempts was hig – mainly from one address: smtp1949@sina.com. Checking this address revealed three possible servers:
 = freemx1.sinamail.sina.com.cn (202.108.3.242 (202.108.0.0/18, /17)
 = freemx2.sinamail.sina.com.cn (218.30.115.106 (218.30.96.0/19))
 = freemx3.sinamail.sina.com.cn (60.28.2.248 (60.28.0.0/15))

To be excluded access in the router.

WordPress upgrade
To test (and possibly execute) an upgrade of the blogs, I created a Linix machine, and here I will test the upgrade. It that succeeeds, it may be a matter of restoring that database on the main server (after, of course, activation of PHP 5.3 and getting WP to work – a separate activity) so I’ll be up and running the latest – and in that matter, it willl be easier to keep the whole lot up-to-date.

Posted on

05-Nov-2014

Regular maintenance
Just the usual stuff, nothing particular. Liitle bit less mail, though:
PMAS statistics for October
Total messages    :   1712 = 100.0 o/o
DNS Blacklisted   :    108 =   6.3 o/o (Files:  1)
Relay attempts    :    153 =   8.9 o/o (Files: 27)
Accepted by PMAS  :   1451 =  84.7 o/o (Files: 31)
  Handled by explicit rule
         Rejected :    760 =  52.3 o/o (processed),  44.3 o/o (all)
         Accepted :    325 =  22.3 o/o (processed),  18.9 o/o (all)
  Handled by content
        Discarded :    140 =   9.6 o/o (processed),   8.1 o/o (all)
     Quarantained :    176 =  12.1 o/o (processed),  10.2 o/o (all)
        Delivered :     50 =   3.4 o/o (processed),   2.9 o/o (all)
and only the beginning of this month, somewhat more attempts to abuse the server for relaying (but all failed, of course).
Have to do some digging into the logfiles…
Working on the LhanWanderweg images of last year (!), slow progress but getting on…Problem is to find place to publish them, the storage area is almost full, thoug there still is some room on the drive; I’ll extend the logical dricve, one more time (using a full 32Gb disk is another option)

Posted on

29-Oct-2014

Power outage
We’ve been warned that yesterday, between 8:00 and 11:00, there would be a power outage, because some maintenance was scheduled on the power grid.
Because my job brings me too far away to easily handle ths situation, I shut down all systems before leaving home, intending to restore services when I got back. So it was one day where all Internet access to and from my home was – deliberately – impossible.
Functionality ceased just before 7:00, all hardware not just shut down but also powered off. It is something of a gamble because you never know if the drives start to spin (they are of a reasonable age…) and wethter the battery of NVRAM and TOY clock have sufficient energy to keep these subsystems warm. But it would shut down anyway, and I considered it a good idea to have control over both shutdown and restore.
But it proved to be no problem at all. Just before 19:00 I repowered the disks and all stated spinning. Next I switched the DS10 back to life and booted. Ans as was to be expected, nothing went wrong; The system was up and running within a few minutes, and started reading in email that had been delivered during the day (and was stored at my ISP’s backup server).
One thing I found today: the text on the homepage was not restored; that was taken care of right away.