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He's back, and this time on the TopShelf server. Bob and I are working on it.
- Erin
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Keep up the good work!
Many curses on the dratted Mail Bomber. May all his/her quiet moments be disturbed by vengeful four inch thick doors!!!!
Hugs,
Alys
Ummm Alys....
Are you confirming that your doors are out roaming the country side??? And they're breeding????
I hope they can't swim...come to think of it they could probably float...
OH NO!!!
Huggles
Frank
Tick?
Is Bob your Arthur? Or is the title here NOT a reference to "The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight Yeah Baby Yeah!" at all?
Actually
It's a reference to the Daffy Duck/Porky Pig send-up of Philadelphia Story that that tick episode was referring to. :)
And I'm not sure which of us is Arthur. :) I do think I knock over more chimneys than Bob does.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Do either of you tilt...
... windmills? And feel a bit like Don Quidote.
Annette
You mean..
...you can't do the Alias thing where you track the bad guy across the globe as they bounce around trying to hide then you drop whatsherface, Sidney, on their head out of a helicopter to kick some serious butt. Fight the good fight guys.
Kristina
What a dirty rotter
I hope it rains on his birthday!
Angharad
Angharad
Resource hog
The mail bomb attack is stealing so many cycles that the site keeps hanging. I took it off line for a bit to reset some optimizations. We're still working on figuring out where this bomber is coming from but he seems to have a distributed net to launch his attack from. It looks like the whole damn world is trying to send mail through qnez.
I may have to take the qnez mail server off this machine.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
That Sux
Sorry you guys have to put up with such nonsense...
Hugs
Frank
Spam Assassin Dead
Apparently, this Mail Bomber has found a way to hang Spam Assassin. So I've had to kill my assassin.
- Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Okay, we may actually have pulled the pin on this bomber
Bob has managed to redirect all this guys incoming traffic to /dev/null (the deep blue sea of linux). :)
Looking good.
Thanks, Bob.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Login
ELIZA
When went to log in the usual place the link had disappeared, is the a taemporary measure?
Huggs Eliza
ELIZA
Yes and No
If we have more than 120 users+guests on the site, the login disappears so as to prevent heavier loads on the server. It usually only lasts 10 to 30 minutes.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Is this the reason Stardust was hard to get to yeasterday?
Had little or no sucess getting to Stardust last night and BC was difficult.
What an a**hole to pull this crap. I'm so sorry you and Bob have to waste time taking out the garbage so to speak.
This is not just annoying it's a threat to commerce and even national security when you realize how interconected computers systems are these days.
Give em hell, Bob, Erin!
John in Wauwatosa
P.S. Yeasterday is the day set aside for baking.
John in Wauwatosa
Um?
Probably not on Stardust, different server. But the problem with BC evidently started on the 13th, looking at logs and just kept getting worse until today it sprouted eight more heads. Whackety whack whack-whack! Bob's vorpal blade when Snickers-nack, just like The Three Musketeers! Thank Mars.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
random malice?
I kind of half follow what this fiend has been doing, but WHY?
Is it just messing with someone because you can?
A politically motivated conspiracy? Or what?
~~~hugs, Laika.
.
(And is there any chance you could borrow some of Fictionmania's
infamous gender-juju and use that on him?)
"You can either fly Over the Rainbow or Under the Radar but you can't do both..."
The rewards of being evil
The spammer was trying to get the BCTS mail server to relay their spam so it would appear to come from somewhere else. spammers typically use a double relay to increase their indetectability. The spam traffic was coming from multiple sources of the first leg relay, seeking to be relayed again. You have to configure your mail server so it rejects this bad traffic as early in the mail cycle as possible. A recent advance in spammer know how enabled them to send traffic that confused spam assassin, which they hoped would let the relay happen. But our system was tight enough to prevent the relay but the confused spam assassin used up so many resources it cause crashes of other programs, like the database manager.
Spammers want to send spam because they actually make money off of it. And that takes more explaining than I'm willing to do right now.
Basically, spam assassin is designed to grab spam by the scruff of the neck and send it flying out the back door onto the ash heap. Bob's solution was to figure a way to simply kick 98% of the spam in the teeth coming in the front door so we could let spam assassin deal with only the wiliest spam.
Pluses, besides the system actually running are that now even less spam gets through to my mail box. :) And Bob went and made similar mods to his own servers.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.