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by Adambean
25 Jul 2023, 20:44
Forum: Report Bugs (csf)
Topic: Issue with Perl 5.38 and fix
Replies: 4
Views: 3934

Re: Issue with Perl 5.38 and fix

Thank you for this fix Vark. I can very much confirm it appears to work fine within my Debian 12 instances. -- To make keeping this patch in place more conveniently make a plain text file called "lfd-debian12.patch" as follows: --- /usr/sbin/lfd 2023-04-18 10:02:42.000000000 +0000 +++ /usr...
by Adambean
25 Oct 2019, 18:42
Forum: Suggestions (csf)
Topic: Abuse report should contain destination (attacked) IP address
Replies: 2
Views: 5973

Re: Abuse report should contain destination (attacked) IP address

The abuse report wouldn't need to contain usernames, e.g. for mailboxes, because abuse reports are intended to be relayed to the ISP of the offending IP address rather than your own information as a system administrator. LFD will already give you a separate email containing a snippet of logs of whic...
by Adambean
29 Jul 2019, 17:39
Forum: Suggestions (csf)
Topic: Abuse report should contain destination (attacked) IP address
Replies: 2
Views: 5973

Abuse report should contain destination (attacked) IP address

Hello, I'd like to request that the automated abuse reports produced contain the destination (attacked) IP address in their opening line. The reason for this is that CSF only takes the hostname as written in "/etc/hostname", which is not an FQDN on many Linux distributions. There is plenty...
by Adambean
25 Nov 2017, 23:08
Forum: Suggestions (csf)
Topic: Block trigger for too many "AUTH command used when not advertised" on Exim
Replies: 2
Views: 4616

Re: Block trigger for too many "AUTH command used when not advertised" on Exim

Hello, I do already have both LF_SMTPAUTH and LF_EXIMSYNTAX set to 5, so this should be quite aggressive? Too many "Incorrect authentication data" does correctly get blocked, it's just the "AUTH command used when not advertised" doesn't seem to ever get blocked. I guess what is h...
by Adambean
09 Nov 2017, 18:04
Forum: Suggestions (csf)
Topic: Block trigger for too many "AUTH command used when not advertised" on Exim
Replies: 2
Views: 4616

Block trigger for too many "AUTH command used when not advertised" on Exim

Hello there, Nearly all of my servers that run Exim are constantly being attacked by remote nodes trying to brute through an AUTH command before advertised. Every day I get a big list of AUTH command used when not advertised in logwatch. On a daily basis I'm blacklisting these remote nodes, because ...