So this past week has been fairly hellish for me, buried in the thick of
Botnet Spam storms. (Quite a number of people seem to be experiencing them,
at least as reported over on the [SNIFFER] list)
My implementation of Declude seems to be pressed to its limits to handle the
volume.
1)
I put an alligate server in front of Declude. It kills about 95% of incoming
connections.
Declude Intercepter incorporates this
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From: Michael Cummins mich...@i-magery.com
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 09:25:57
To: declude.junkmail@declude.com
I solved the load issue by putting Alligate in front of the mail server. I
put it in the same server and can handle everything coming at it much better
than before. Alligate gets rid of the obvious spam, about 90 %, before it
hits my mail software
Thank you
Please note our new Address
I actually paid for Alligate a couple of years ago, but then had to
repurpose the hardware for a casualty before I could install it and trial
it. I never got around to putting it together after that (I'm not a big
company, and I don't have a huge budget). It expired, and now every year
Alligate
Hi Michael,
I guess this is best said - let it go,,,Alligate is the the way to go in
front of Declude - Contact them again - they probaby will be glad to set you up
with at trial even of some sort,
-Nick
MadRiverAccess.com|Skywaves.com Tech Support
US/Canada 877-873-6482 or International
Hardware reqs for alligate are fairly low too
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-Original Message-
From: Michael Cummins mich...@i-magery.com
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 10:17:13
To: declude.junkmail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Fine tuning Declude
I actually paid for Alligate a
Hi Michael,
I may be able to help with this. You mention doing gateway filtering for
Exchange servers. We also do that, but instead of accepting any address with
the domain, we have accounts set up on our server and refuse connections that
don't go to one of those accounts.
Now your next
Sorry guys, I meant to send this directly to Michael. Got distracted with
other email and phone calls, and didn't check the address before sending.
My apologies.
Darin.
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From: Darin Cox
To: declude.junkmail@declude.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:55 AM
I wrote a batch file once on a number of the exchange servers that used
VBS and LDAP to generate a list of valid exchange recipients and then
FTP them to the server where a CF script parsed it clean.
Michael, it sounds like you were most of the way there.
Alligate does have the feature you
Hi Michael:
I have a Windows script that I use with a whole bunch of different Exchange
customers to pull their email addresses from their servers and dump them
into a small JET (.mdb = Access) Database. It does have a few input
parameters where you configure the LDAP path to the mail domain
That sounds like it would be fun to review, regardless. I can dig up my old
script and post it, too. Mine is pretty primitive: spew and parse.
Does it reach out to LDAP from the internet side of things, through a
properly configured firewall, I imagine? Mine was a local script that
Not sure that this list supports attachments - but here it is.
Here's how I launch it every half hour:
cscript //Nologo ExtractLDAP.wsf 70.255.255.84 ou=Their
Staff,dc=TheirCompany,dc=local logon.u...@theircompany.local mypassword
domainalias1.com domainalias2.com domainalias3.com
Hi,
Does anyone have a URL that works? I haven't been able to get
www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml, or www.au.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml to come up?
I remember reading something last year that they had trouble getting a
hosting sponsor - but later they were acquired by GFI.
Best Regards,
Andy
Hi Michael,
You're working too hard. Send a message to support @ Alligate.com and put
ATTN: Brian in the subject. We'll figure out something. I usually don't
see the license renewal things unless it is someone I deal with regularly,
which includes a lot of members of this list. Believe it or
This is about 1/3 of the process to sync the servers. Then there's the
processing of the file on the gateway to add/delete accounts as needed, and the
minor Exchange config changes to accept mail from a subdomain.
In our implementations, and due to often insufficient access/knowledge on the
Hi Darin,
I have been fortunate that my customers (or their network consultants) were
able to open the LDAP port and add a user without trouble. Either they were
big enough to have their own IT staff, or small enough to have an external
IT consultant. But I understand that this might be
It's good all around discussion, too. I imagine it's quite topical for
anyone that uses Declude ; these things affect our environment.
Thanks lots!
I guess I'll review my Alligate history and give Brian a shout.
Very Respectfully,
Michael Cummins
From: supp...@declude.com
It may have been down when you looked, Andy. It's up now.
Also, I like to use this 3rd party for an instant second opinion:
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Andrew 8)
From: supp...@declude.com [mailto:supp...@declude.com] On Behalf Of Andy
Schmidt
Thanks Andrew - it was down for a long time - but now I can get it. Thanks
for reassuring me.
From: supp...@declude.com [mailto:supp...@declude.com] On Behalf Of Colbeck,
Andrew
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 5:29 PM
To: declude.junkmail@declude.com
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SORBS Website
Nah - I wasn't imaging things - they really ARE having problems, e.g., when
trying to query an IP address.
Software error:
Open DB Handle needed at /home/dnsbl/htdocs/cgi-bin/db line 190
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (supp...@support.sorbs.net),
giving this error message and
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