Re: sa-update ruleset updates enabled again

2017-11-20 Thread Matthias Leisi
In addition to server-side blocking, would it make sense for sa-update to rate-limit itself? — Matthias Von meinem iPhone gesendet > Am 21.11.2017 um 03:53 schrieb Kevin A. McGrail : > >> On 11/20/2017 7:17 PM, Dave Jones wrote: >> Could we use something like mod_evasive to limit any IP connec

Re: sa-update ruleset updates enabled again

2017-11-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 11/20/2017 7:17 PM, Dave Jones wrote: Could we use something like mod_evasive to limit any IP connecting more than 3 times (one batch of ruleset files) an hour? SA instances behind NAT'd IPs could cause a legitimate reason for more than 2x hits per day. I'd like to keep it simpler for now. 

NOTE: Warning to Abusers of Update Servers

2017-11-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
All, If you are checking the SpamAssassin updates more than 2x a day, expect to be blocked in the very near future.  We have people checking literally every minute and we only release rules currently 1x per day.  There is no need to check this often! Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Asst.

Re: sa-update ruleset updates enabled again

2017-11-20 Thread Dave Jones
On 11/20/2017 04:25 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Dave, can you share the script you used for that?  Assuming some grep of access log and then an awk and a sort on the IP address? I am using awstats to get some basic information from my Apache HTTPd logs.  That list was the top 10 IPs that aws

Re: sa-update ruleset updates enabled again

2017-11-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Dave, can you share the script you used for that?  Assuming some grep of access log and then an awk and a sort on the IP address? I think we'll need to develop a policy that we can then block people checking more than a certain number of times.  I would say since we publish only 1x per day, th

Re: sa-update ruleset updates enabled again

2017-11-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I'll take a look at this too on my server. On 11/20/2017 2:14 PM, Dave Jones wrote: On 11/19/2017 02:33 AM, Matthias Leisi wrote: Heads up.  DNS updates for sa-update have been enabled again. The next rules promotion will happen in about 11 hours around 2:30 AM UTC. Traffic on my mirror pic

Re: sa-update ruleset updates enabled again

2017-11-20 Thread Dave Jones
On 11/19/2017 02:33 AM, Matthias Leisi wrote: Heads up.  DNS updates for sa-update have been enabled again. The next rules promotion will happen in about 11 hours around 2:30 AM UTC. Traffic on my mirror picked up at around 03:00 UTC (time in chart below is in UTC+01:00), traffic is at simil

Fwd: Cron ~/svn/trunk/build/mkupdates/run_nightly | /usr/bin/tee /var/www/automc.spamassassin.org/mkupdates/mkupdates.txt

2017-11-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
   So nice to wakeup to normal cron jobs again :-) Forwarded Message Subject: Cron ~/svn/trunk/build/mkupdates/run_nightly | /usr/bin/tee /var/www/automc.spamassassin.org/mkupdates/mkupdates.txt Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 08:34:07 + (UTC) From: Cron Daemon Reply-To:

Cron ~/svn/trunk/build/mkupdates/run_nightly | /usr/bin/tee /var/www/automc.spamassassin.org/mkupdates/mkupdates.txt

2017-11-20 Thread Cron Daemon
+ promote_active_rules + pwd + /usr/bin/perl build/mkupdates/listpromotable /usr/local/spamassassin/automc/svn/trunk HTTP get: http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/1-days-ago?xml=1 HTTP get: http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/2-days-ago?xml=1 day 2 contains a --net mass-check! offsetting by an extra day Use