[ale] testy, testy, ping, ping, ping

[DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)]

Spam has exploded for my systems the last 2 weeks.
Also seeing many more ssh attempts (quickly blocked via fail2ban).

On 05/19/16 22:42, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I was doing full iptables blocks on whole regions but lifted them for
> abuse style blocks about 3 years ago. I don't recall my reasoning at the
> time.
> 
> I'll look into the list/tools you suggested. Spam is still such an
> annoying, moving target.
> 
> On May 19, 2016 9:37:48 PM CDT, "Ted W." <ted-lists at xy0.org> wrote:
> 
>     Out of curiosity are you doing any IP based blocking? I've had good 
>     success with this setup to reduce the processing load on Spam Assassin 
>     by just blocking known bad sources before even attempting content based 
>     filters: http://bgp-spamd.net/
>