I imported a spamhaus blacklist into my Alias and it's really slowed
things down.

Derrick Conner


-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 2:40 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] blocking spammers xml 

to bring up an old conversation...

We literally have seen a drop in spam across the network of about 93%

I have redirected the mail coming from those ip ranges to a different  
server - and pretty much 99% (all but just a few emails_) were  
actually junk mail.

Great stuff.

:-)


On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:20 AM, Glenn Kelley wrote:

> I did these a little different...
> in XML I added
>
> in filters section
> <filters>
>
>
>       <rule>
>                       <type>block</type>
>                       <interface>wan</interface>
>                       <max-src-nodes/>
>                       <max-src-states/>
>                       <statetimeout/>
>                       <statetype>keep state</statetype>
>                       <os></os>
>                       <protocol>tcp/udp</protocol>
>                       <source>
>                               <address>spammers</address>
>                       </source>
>                       <destination>
>                               <any/>
>                               <port>25</port>
>                       </destination>
>                       <descr>spammers</descr>
>               </rule>
>
>
> </filters>
>
> then below the rules / filters section
>
>
>
>       <aliases>
>               <alias>
>                       <name>spammers</name>
>                       <address>66.0.0.0/8 66.0.0.0/8 78.0.0.0/8
79.0.0.0/8 80.0.0.0/8  
> 81.0.0.0/8 82.0.0.0/8 83.0.0.0/8 84.0.0.0/8 85.0.0.0/8 86.0.0.0/8  
> 87.0.0.0/8 88.0.0.0/8 89.0.0.0/8 90.0.0.0/8 91.0.0.0/8 92.0.0.0/8  
> 93.0.0.0/8 94.0.0.0/8 95.0.0.0/8 116.0.0.0/8 121.0.0.0/8 122.0.0.0/8  
> 123.0.0.0/8 124.0.0.0/8 125.0.0.0/8 194.0.0.0/8 195.0.0.0/8  
> 200.0.0.0/8 201.0.0.0/8 202.0.0.0/8 203.0.0.0/8 210.0.0.0/8  
> 190.0.0.0/8</address>
>                       <descr>SMTP Block Known Spam Networks</descr>
>                       <type>network</type>
>                       <detail>smtp block spam Canada||smtp block Spam
Canada||smtp  
> block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block Spam  
> Amsterdam||smtp block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block Spam Amsterdam|| 
> smtp block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block  
> Spam Amsterdam||smtp block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block Spam  
> Amsterdam||smtp block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block Spam Amsterdam|| 
> smtp block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block  
> Spam Amsterdam||smtp block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block Spam  
> Amsterdam||smtp block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block Spam Asia||smtp  
> block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block Spam  
> Amsterdam||smtp block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block Spam Amsterdam|| 
> smtp block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block Spam Amsterdam||smtp block  
> Spam Mexico||smtp block Spam Mexico||smtp block Spam Mexico||smtp  
> block Spam Mexico||smtp block Spam Mexico||smtp block Spam Mexico||</ 
> detail>
>               </alias>
>       </aliases>
>
>
> Seems to work well.
>
> On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:25 PM, Derrick Conner wrote:
>
>>  I've attached my cleaned up XML of all the subnets I block.   Feel
>> free to post it, or whatever you want to do with it.  I would have  
>> sent
>> it to Joe Laffey, but I think my spam filter got him.
>>
>>
>> Derrick
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Glenn Kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 10:43 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] blockign china
>>
>> I would need to know perl .
>>
>> I have given my wife a few of those in the past....
>> hmmm
>>
>> going to her jewlery box
>>
>> all kidding aside - i think your right.
>>
>> I will see what I can come up w/ - i think this might help the  
>> pfsense
>> community @ large.
>> In fact - it seems simple enough - it might make a very simple pkg
>>
>> just a thought -
>>
>> I think if it were a pkg - it could then parse those lists every  
>> month
>> or so - cron job 1 time per month
>> and then reinject the changes
>>
>> This way it stays up to date...
>>
>> I would say 95% of the hacking attempts we are seeing in our
>> datacenter are all out of China and Korea -
>> the last 5 % would be say 4% from Russia and 1% from script kiddies  
>> in
>> the US
>>
>> Then again 99.256% of all statistics are made up 98.721% of the time
>>
>> I know my #'s are close however
>>
>> Glenn
>>
>>
>> On Sep 22, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Joe Laffey wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Glenn Kelley wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Joe -
>>>>
>>>> I saw that...
>>>>
>>>> My concern was typing all of those into the system one by one by
>>>> one...
>>>>
>>>> Its okay if I gotta do it :-)
>>>> My hope was that someone already has - and that they could put out
>>>> that part of their xml file - so the community could all benefit.
>>>
>>>
>>> I would think you could write a perl script to convert those into a
>>> segment of XML that you could then paste into a saved config. Then
>>> reload that config.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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