Phishing Update Server

[Jerry Benton]

Kevin,

Thanks for the offer, but it is not an issue anymore. The new server is now only costing $20 a month and I will probably start hosting the bad host and domain file on Amazon S3 with a pointer from the phishing server. That way it will be replicated and still very cheap. I also want to use the phishing as a method to kind of gauge how many MailScanner instances are out there using awstats. I noticed a lot of hits for the old file and other items (like 1x1image.gif) that I created pointers for. This “un-breaks” a lot of the older MailScanner systems. 

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On Dec 17, 2015, at 12:45 PM, Kevin Miller <kevin.miller at juneau.org> wrote:
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> Perhaps setting up a pool, sort of like the ones for NPT, would be worthwhile.  Mirror the phishing file on a dozen or so servers and do round-robin DNS to share the load.  I'd bet a number of folks using MailScanner would be willing to offer up a tiny amount of disk space and a little bandwidth as a way to give back.  I'd have to clear it w/my boss, but I'd bet we would.  It would certainly be cheaper (I'd think anyway) than your average support contract for a commercial product...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jerry Benton
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 12:12 AM
> To: MailScanner Discussion
> Subject: Phishing Update Server
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> Optional hostname update: phishing.mailscanner.info
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> So I was wondering why my data transfer bill was so damn high … then I found the phishing update server is using a large amount of data from people downloading the update files. So ...
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> I moved the phishing update server to a new datacenter with more generous data allowance and speed. While I was at it I added the hostname phishing.mailscanner.info to DNS and to the server. So now you can use that domain name if you like. It is still the same exact server as phishing.mailborder.com.
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