Robert Chalmers:
> This afternoon, over the course of about 4 hours, I?ve logged 741
> connections like this.
> 
> Mar  8 15:05:46 zeus postfix/smtpd[92324]: connect from unknown[185.130.5.90]
> Mar  8 15:07:30 zeus postfix/smtpd[92616]: connect from 
> unknown[131.161.138.190]
> Mar  8 15:07:39 zeus postfix/smtpd[92324]: connect from 
> unknown[113.160.205.81]
> Mar  8 15:07:45 zeus postfix/smtpd[92616]: connect from 
> unknown[181.142.12.223]
> Mar  8 15:08:00 zeus postfix/smtpd[92324]: connect from unknown[181.168.4.42]
> Mar  8 15:08:00 zeus postfix/smtpd[93053]: connect from 
> unknown[116.105.182.54]

If the load bothers you, let it be handled by postscreen with a few
good DNSBLs (on my machine, that eliminates 90% of inbound SMTP
connections; only 10% end up talking to an smtpd process).

> So, is the best way of dealing with this list of numbers, and I
> can extract - and have extracted - just the ip numbers.

Don't waste your time. The odds that the same client keeps coming
back are small.

        Wietse

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