OT: Blocking persistent spammers using IPTables?
Steve Campbell
campbell at cnpapers.com
Thu Apr 29 16:03:12 IST 2010
Philip Parsons wrote:
>
> If you are using MailScanner you should look into a program called
> Vispan. IT scans the maillog and compiles lists of ips to
> automatically block according to whatever criteria you put in place.
> The good thing is that it releases the ip after 5 days as most
> spammers are using DHCP, but if the same machines starts to spam again
> it then blocks it for 10 days and so for and so long. Also has a nice
> little web based stats page.
>
>
Phillip,
Since this is labeled OT, hope you don't mind answering a few questions
about Vispan, and that the list doesn't mind the out-of-range stuff.
I don't really see how or where Vispan creates a list of IP for me. I
don't understand what the UseHeuristics parm is supposed to do. And I
haven't really found how to set up rbldnsd anywhere. All google searches
end in insufficient explanations, although most touch on some of this.
At this point in time, I have both UseAccess and UseIPTables set to 0
but have try setting UseHeuristics to both 0 and 1 without any
difference I could see.
If you have time, could you respond to the above, either online or offline?
Thanks,
Steve Campbell
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