The Pigstye

As usual when running servers on the internet, you get people who try to hack your site, or post spam, or misuse your mailser ver, etc.

I take it personally when they do this and write software to help me fight them. I also take great delight in displaying their i ps and what offense they perpetrated for all the world to see.

The last time I published such lists, the onslaught it caused was tremendous. Well I am a glutton for punishment, because I am doing it again. ;)

Here for you enjoyment is the List of Lamers for you to peruse. As usual if you find your computer on this list and you think it shouldn't be, let me know.

My system is set to drop all access from computers who have had more than three offences in the past 30 days. The lamer list and the drop list is updated automatically every hour. There are a few large blocks of ips that I have banned permanently for persistent spam/hacking abuse. If you are blocked thusly tough luck.

Note: I don't have the mail log processing worked out yet, but be assured it will be coming soon. Spam emailers and other abusers will be added and blocked. Update: did it added both spamers blocked by the mta and spam that gets through.

So be sure to visit the Lamer List and laugh with me.

At least twice a week I see white tailed deer around my office. I have never been quick enough to snap a picture, so I got the next best thing. I snapped a couple of pictures of deer scat to prove what I am saying. (You could say I am faster than scat, but slower than deer).

Today I went out in the woods and sat and listened to the leaves fall. I can hear you say "Listened to the leaves fall, are you nuts?" It was actually a nice experience, sort of like letting snow fall around you. There was an occasional light breeze whic h made the leaves come in waves. Here are a couple of pictures of the woods in front of my office.

I found a bolete mushroom, I think a Boletus edulis or King Bolete. Here are a couple of pictures. Note I went back to harvest it and some woodland creature beat me to it. :(

In the last of my server howtos, we will find out how to install proftpd on the Basic Debian Server.

Eastern Box Turtles are fairly common on my property. We have to watch when we mow the grass. They were one of the first creat ures we encountered when we purchased the property. They are protected in our state and you can't remove them from the wild. Here are some pictures from one I encountered yesterday.

When I set up my latest batch of servers I looked around for a simple iptables firewall script and did not find any that I liked. So I took what I found and created my own. Here are the scripts and simple usage and installation instructions.

This is a howto for install Bind9 as a DNS server on the Basic Debian Server.

Our mushroom for today is a Sheep's head mushroom also know as hen-of-the-woods mushroom, ram's head mushroom, and japanese kumotake mushroom (dancing mushroom). It's scientific name is "Grifola frondosa". The mushroom is edible and has a nice, earthy flavor. It is reputed to have numerous health benefits: It is used as a food to help promote wellness and vitality. It is also said to be used in prevention and treatment of cancer, and as a supportive tool for HIV infection.

For a detail discussion of Exim's filter system, you should check out Exim's documentation itself (http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.40/doc/html/filter_toc.html ). For just the short of it, read on.

In order for Exim to recognize a .forward as having Exim4 filter rules, the first non-whitespace entry must be:

# Exim filter

Character case and anything following it on the same line are ignored.