If I were to depart from the unstructured text syslog format, I'd shift to
CSV; with a reasonable choice of quoting rules it can robustly round-trip a
lot of tabular data, and very fast writers and parsers are available. I,
personally, wouldn't find a more complex structure that easily represents
h
How about running a logging wrapper script, instead.
Rather than invoking the maildrop executable, invoke a script, perhaps
something like
#!/bin/sh
exec >/tmp/maildrop.log 2>&1
echo $0 "$@"
set -x
printenv
maildrop ...
The design sounds familiar. I've a couple of little thoughts, neither specific
to your design sketch.
Maintaining perfectly consistent distributed configuration without any risk of
race conditions is hard; I try to design away from that requirement.
So, for instance, I've avoided having serve
Given the situation, perhaps you could set up a resolver that blocks, or
that's behind a packet filter that blocks, the IPs of the name servers
they're using. That would catch it at the NS lookup, and would be no extra
traffic, unlike whois.
Two thoughts.
I've received legitimate email from a registrar where I was listed as a contact
for a domain. If no one uses an email address in your domain to register,
that's not a problem.
And second, whois is the way I query to find out about a domain, answers to
questions like who registe
The operational cost is non-zero. Besides hardware, which must include
backups, and enough physical diversity to offer availability, an email
server is an attractive nuisance; spammers and other criminals constantly
attempt sabotage and burglary, and it takes ongoing manpower to attempt to
hold the
Probably many ways to do it.
My first try would be a map, I'm inordinately fond of cdb, with the what, 8192
IPs in it? Create it with a little perl -e print for 1..8192 and so forth.
I'm an unapologetic ASCII bigot, at least in this space. It isn't just
smartphones, it's been years since folks found unicode homographs (?), code
points off in the weeds that look similar to ASCII characters, and started
registering internationalized domain names (IDNs) for links to fool people
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