Wednesday, January 10, 2018
You know, the ability to comment on-the-fly configuration changes in long running daemons is probably a good idea
And speaking of the greylist daemon, I can filter by IP address:
[spc]brevard:~>gld-mcp show iplist
30905 GREYLIST 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
115 REJECT 61.175.186.125 255.255.255.255
0 ACCEPT 64.12.0.0 255.255.0.0
0 ACCEPT 64.233.160.0 255.255.224.0
0 ACCEPT 66.94.224.0 255.255.224.0
0 ACCEPT 66.102.0.0 255.255.240.0
33 ACCEPT 66.163.160.0 255.255.224.0
0 ACCEPT 66.218.64.0 255.255.224.0
81 ACCEPT 66.220.144.128 255.255.255.128
0 ACCEPT 66.249.80.0 255.255.240.0
0 ACCEPT 66.249.64.0 255.255.224.0
0 ACCEPT 66.252.224.0 255.255.252.0
0 ACCEPT 69.63.184.0 255.255.255.128
0 ACCEPT 69.63.176.0 255.255.240.0
0 ACCEPT 69.147.64.0 255.255.192.0
4 ACCEPT 70.34.16.0 255.255.240.0
0 ACCEPT 72.14.192.0 255.255.192.0
16 ACCEPT 74.125.0.0 255.255.0.0
0 ACCEPT 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255
1207 ACCEPT 140.211.11.3 255.255.255.255
0 ACCEPT 149.174.0.0 255.255.0.0
12 REJECT 172.128.0.0 255.128.0.0
7 GREYLIST 173.232.0.0 255.255.0.0
115 GREYLIST 173.0.0.0 255.0.0.0
0 ACCEPT 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0
0 ACCEPT 204.127.217.0 255.255.255.0
0 ACCEPT 204.127.0.0 255.255.0.0
0 ACCEPT 205.152.58.0 255.255.254.0
0 ACCEPT 205.188.156.0 255.255.254.0
0 ACCEPT 205.188.0.0 255.255.0.0
0 REJECT 206.214.64.0 255.255.224.0
0 ACCEPT 207.115.11.0 255.255.255.192
0 ACCEPT 207.115.0.0 255.255.192.0
0 ACCEPT 207.171.188.0 255.255.255.0
116 ACCEPT 209.85.128.0 255.255.128.0
0 ACCEPT 209.131.32.0 255.255.224.0
3 ACCEPT 216.39.48.0 255.255.240.0
0 ACCEPT 216.239.32.0 255.255.224.0
[spc]brevard:~>
But there's a question I can't answer—why?
Why did I accept 69.63.184.0/19?
Or 216.39.48.0/20?
Heck,
I can't even answer when!
What I wish I had done back when I wrote this was allow comments for this filter table.
I mean,
it's pretty obvious with some of the other filters,
such as the to-domain list:
[spc]brevard:~>gld-mcp show to-domain
0 REJECT area51.conman.org
75 REJECT linus.area51.conman.org
30530 GREYLIST DEFAULT
[spc]brevard:~>
The machine linus.area51.conman.org has been decommissioned for over a decade,
and yet some spammers somewhere are still attempting to deliver email to it
(although it may help if I were to remove the MX and A
DNS records for it—hmm …) even after all these years
(75 attempts have been attempted since September 6th, 2017
when for whatever reason,
the greylist daemon was restarted).
It's obvious why I added the line.
But the IP addresses? No idea. The ability to add comments for ad-hoc, on-the-fly updates for long running daemons is something to keep in mind. I just wish I had thought of that sooner.
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