Hello Chizl, Sunday, October 26, 2003, 9:06:10 AM, you wrote:
C> Plus I have some serious logs, that let me know exacly what people are doing C> at all times. Noone has brute forced nothing on my mail server. If they C> tried it wouldn't last long, before they're blocked for life. Yes, you can block for life a range of IP addresses but problem remains. You did probably blocked completely innocent people! Why is that, you may ask? Almost all ISP's use dynamic IP resolving of addresses, so (let us call those "bastards" by name hackers (in negative context of that word)) hacker has one IP address one day and another one next day. You may also say that you blocked a *range*, but in fact bigger your range is greater amount of people who never did something wrong is being blocked. Once I remember that I got warning from some server that I am on their "black list" and that I can't get any content from that server. That was first time that I tried to connect there, but you can guess that someone with same IP was already there before me and did something stupid, so I got banned from accessing that server! While working on one ISP I got a conclusion that is best solution for spamers to be kicked out by administrators of their own network. So people, as soon you get spamed or abused in any way, don't waste time to report that to your administrator and/or administrator of network from which specific IP is spaming you. That way the hacker will be traced down and some measures will be taken! Sorry for this off topic letter, just to say that I got spam letters also, reported to my ISP administrator, and they are gone! -- Best regards, Vladimir mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
