community backup mx-ing

Posted on April 26th, 2006 in code, spam by skip

I run MX for my domains, some good friends do the same. Let’s be backup MX for eachother…

  1. Everyone should have strong anti-spam server settings. If there’s a weak link then it’ll be exploited by spammers. They love backup mx’s.
  2. Make similar changes to your sendmail.mc:
    define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN’,`8d’)dnl
    define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN_NORMAL’,`9d’)dnl
    define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN_URGENT’,`7d’)dnl
    define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN_NOURGENT’,`10d’)dnl
    define(’confTO_QUEUERETURN’,'16d’)dnl
  3. Add your friends domains to relay-domains
  4. Add something like this to mailertable:
    fif3.com esmtp:[mail.fif3.com]
    .fif3.com esmtp:[mail.fif3.com]
  5. Remake sendmail.cf and mailertable hash and restart sendmail. Done.

linux security kernel patches i forgot about

Posted on April 17th, 2006 in code, url by skip

http://www.grsecurity.net/features.php

http://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/index.html

http://www.openwall.com/linux/README.shtml

dreamhost ftw

Posted on April 11th, 2006 in rant, url by skip

I just wanted to point out that dreamhost is the best registrar/web/dns/mail/ftp/app host i’ve ever used. Not to sound like a commercial… just wanted to say that I love them. Check the plans first. Also here’s a 40% off promo code: 5152J