This week, we:

• got 12,487 messages from 217 different IP addresses.
• handled 16,802 sessions from 997 different IP addresses.
• received 224,173 connections from at least 71,302 different IP addresses.
• hit a highwater of 23 connections being checked at once.

The university came back from vacation this past Thursday, and of course the spammers never went on much of one to start with. I suspect that volume is up somewhat from last week , but given that this is the first time in a couple of weeks that we have full stats it's hard to be sure.

Kernel level packet filtering top ten:

Host/Mask           Packets   Bytes
213.4.149.12          24349   1266K
193.70.192.0/24       11208    505K
213.29.7.0/24         10387    623K
69.15.68.98            7857    367K
212.43.241.13          7615    418K
66.7.28.46             4040    205K
193.252.22.158         3383    203K
69.15.6.139            3252    156K
212.175.13.129         2470    148K
212.184.12.130         2289    110K

• 213.4.149.12, 212.43.241.13, and 193.252.22.158 all return from last week , although they've shuffled their order this time around.
• 193.70.192.0/24 is iol.it aka tin.it, who we haven't talked to for a long time.
• 213.29.7.0/24 is centrum.cz, with their volume surging back up from last week 's temporary drop.
• 69.15.68.98 and 212.175.13.129 (last heard from in September ) had too many bad HELO s.
• 66.7.28.46 is in the NJABL .
• 69.15.6.139 kept trying to send us phish spam that had already hit our spamtraps.
• 212.184.12.130 reappears from October and still has no reverse DNS information.

Overall volume here is up somewhat from last week .

Connection time rejection stats:

  61627 total
  38124 dynamic IP
  17309 bad or no reverse DNS
   4543 class bl-cbl
    378 class bl-dsbl
    316 class bl-sdul
    166 class bl-sbl
     84 cuttingedgemedia.com
     49 class bl-njabl
     24 class bl-spews
     21 'fairgamemail.us'

Only one out of the top 30 most rejected IP addresses was rejected 100 times or more: 64.166.14.222 (941 times, a Pacbell DSL line). 20 of the top 30 are currently in the CBL, 10 are currently in bl.spamcop.net , and one is in the SBL : 209.205.236.245, which also did this last week .

The leading actual SBL rejections this week are:

This week Hotmail brought us:

• 4 messages accepted.
• no messages rejected because they came from non-Hotmail email addresses.
• 19 messages sent to our spamtraps.
• 2 messages refused because their sender addresses had already hit our spamtraps.
• 1 message refused due to its origin IP address being inside telkom.co.za.

And the final numbers:

Now that's the kind of change I like to see compared to last week . As you might expect, there are no really big sources of bad HELO s, and there are so few bad bounces that I can put the usernames in a handy table:

This is pretty atypical; four of these are actual usernames that used to exist here, and only one is an alphabetical jumble.