Agile Tortoise
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Archive for December, 2004
RE: [expletive deleted] Spammers
Interestingly, after spending a little more time looking over the apache logs on my hijacked proxy, it appears that about 80% of the traffic was from a small number spammers who discovered the open proxy and the other 20% was traffic using the proxy to spoof ad-clicks to many of the major ad servers (though [...]
Thursday, December 9th, 2004. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>
[expletive deleted] Spammers
Well, a network slowdown at work yesterday kept getting worse today and I started digging into the problem. Both of the instances of postfix running on our subnet were being used to send out spam. Gack! I checked and rechecked the postfix configs and they were clean, I was not running an [...]
Wednesday, December 8th, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | 1 Comment »>
More squid tweaking
Thanks to Seth’s help to make a minor tweak in Conversant and an offlist assist from Andrew Sawyer at Zope Corporation on my squid.conf, my new server setup now takes greater advantage of Squid, and caches most everything it’s allowed to…with proper respect for HTTP Vary header generated by Conversant. Sweet!
Of course, now that [...]
Tuesday, December 7th, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
RE: Site outages
All the power problems are resolved now…site should be running reliably now.
Tuesday, December 7th, 2004. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>
Site outages
It’s likely this site will be down intermitently today, possibly longer, due to some power problems where it’s residing. No need to make me aware of the problem.
Monday, December 6th, 2004. Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »>
Man, what a day.
Our power at work has been nuts for the last couple of days. CoServ hasn’t been able to resolve the problem, and is going to have to come in and shut off power to the whole building tomorrow morning to troubleshoot it. Hopefully it will just be loose connections and they’ll have it [...]
Friday, December 3rd, 2004. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>
Port 25 filters
SBC has just put port 25 filters on my DSL line. Gack. It seems all ISPs are doing this, and I guess they are seeing it block enough traffic to make it worthwhile, but I have a hard time believing anyone serious about sending spam can manage to use an alternate port. [...]
Thursday, December 2nd, 2004. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Internet2
CSM has a interesting light read on the future of the Internet. A few fun statistics I would not have guessed at the end, too.
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