After some severe bashing and waiting, ‘our’ new mirror-server is finally ready. It’s times like these you notice that 800GB is a shitload of data, especially if you have (relatively) slow mirrors to pull it from. Luckily, after a few tries, I found some mirrors both close AND fast, so the initial sync could finish [...]

A while ago, we decided to replace some existing ipsec-gateways with new ones. While we were at it, we thought it’d be nice to make the new ones run FreeBSD, and use PF for filtering, instead of Linux and iptables. All seemed to go well, until we did some real-life tests: large filetransfers randomly broke [...]

Yesterday, someone at the office asked me to build a VPN connection to/with one of our suppliers. Since we have a working IPSec-setup, this shouldn’t be much of a problem. But, ofcourse, the ‘other side’ is using Checkpoint FW1. Always in for a nightmare, I started googling and trying some stuff. After a few hours [...]

Today seems to be doomed. I had to get up at 5:30AM to be at the office in time. When I arrived, I found one of the mailservers bezerking and having a rather high load, even ssh wasn’t possible anymore. No worries, we have powerboots. Unfortunately, the descriptions didn’t match, so I rebooted the wrong [...]

Always nice to find your backup-mx spammed to hell:

messages in queue: 582749
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 427364

(sample)
After a little research, (read: google) I found the following link, giving a few more hints:
http://www.spamvrij.nl/lijsten/bedrijf.php?idbedrijf=1189
If that’s correct, then this could be our suspect:

Registrant:
J.J. Rams
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