Re: [OT] Blocking Tor connections, was: Re: Postfix.org website

2022-09-15 Thread Peter
On 16/09/22 16:24, Peter wrote: * Malicious users are much more likely to come from botnets than from TOR, and botnets can connect from anywhere and are much *less* likely to be malicious (People who run exit nodes tend to be knowledgeable enough to know how to keep their computers from becomin

[OT] Blocking Tor connections, was: Re: Postfix.org website

2022-09-15 Thread Peter
On 9/09/22 23:51, Simon Wilson wrote: Noting that whilst some may consider that block excessive, it does appear that some 'authorities', including at least the Australian government's cyber security department, Fortinet, and others, recommend these IPs are blocked. E.g. "The Australian Cyber

Re: Postfix.org website

2022-09-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
> On Sep 9, 2022, at 10:54 AM, Viktor Dukhovni > wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 11:23:18PM +1000, Simon Wilson wrote: > >> I have no insight into why security firms, government departments, >> etc. recommend to block what they do. > > Note that the recommendations you quoted, suggest bloc

Re: Postfix.org website

2022-09-09 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 11:23:18PM +1000, Simon Wilson wrote: > I have no insight into why security firms, government departments, > etc. recommend to block what they do. Note that the recommendations you quoted, suggest blocking Tor *exit* nodes. While the service you're using seems to go above

Re: Postfix.org website

2022-09-09 Thread Simon Wilson
From: Ralph Seichter Sent: Friday, 9 September 2022 10:55 pm To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: Postfix.org website * Simon Wilson: > Noting that whilst some may consider that block excessive, it does > appear that some 'authorities', including at least the Australia

Re: Postfix.org website

2022-09-09 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Simon Wilson: > Noting that whilst some may consider that block excessive, it does > appear that some 'authorities', including at least the Australian > government's cyber security department, Fortinet, and others, > recommend these IPs are blocked. Which just goes to show how little these so-c

Re: Postfix.org website

2022-09-09 Thread Simon Wilson
- Message from Simon Wilson - Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 17:26:09 +1000 From: Simon Wilson Reply-To: si...@simonandkate.net Subject: Postfix.org website To: Postfix users Yet I cannot open www.postfix.org (either over http://www.postfix.org or https://www.postfix.org

Re: Postfix.org website

2022-09-09 Thread Wietse Venema
Ralph Seichter: > * Simon Wilson: > > > Pinging postfix-mirror.horus-it.com [65.108.3.114] with 32 bytes of data: > > Reply from 65.108.3.114: bytes=32 time=323ms TTL=48 > > Reply from 65.108.3.114: bytes=32 time=321ms TTL=48 > > > > Yet I cannot open www.postfix.org (either over http://www.postfi

Re: Postfix.org website

2022-09-09 Thread Eero Volotinen
Looks like dns works fine. Maybe your dns proxy/masq is broken? Eero pe 9. syysk. 2022 klo 10.27 Simon Wilson (si...@simonandkate.net) kirjoitti: > At this stage of my life I consider myself not a complete moron when > it comes to technology. Given that I can (and do) run our own mail > server,

Re: Postfix.org website

2022-09-09 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Simon Wilson: > Pinging postfix-mirror.horus-it.com [65.108.3.114] with 32 bytes of data: > Reply from 65.108.3.114: bytes=32 time=323ms TTL=48 > Reply from 65.108.3.114: bytes=32 time=321ms TTL=48 > > Yet I cannot open www.postfix.org (either over http://www.postfix.org > or https://www.postf

Postfix.org website

2022-09-09 Thread Simon Wilson
At this stage of my life I consider myself not a complete moron when it comes to technology. Given that I can (and do) run our own mail server, I figure I should be able to open a website... :-/ Yet I cannot get to www.postfix.org *from most* locations. From my home location, I can resolve i