I setup an email server a couple of months ago.

The amount of port scans and brute force attacks I've received this month alone is awful.

JUST SOD OFF ALREADY, PLEASE.

Build a wall, a firewall! Belive me, nobody builds firewalls like IP tables!

That's the internet for you. Get used to it.

@herrybiscuit Not at the moment, postfix is doing quite well at stopping then for the moment (I think) but I need to at some point.

I'm not a server guy so this is all very new 😛

@Jamoyjamie Please install Fail2Ban. I myself would have been a victim of a mail bomb and could have prevented it. And monitor your mail queue. If this is very high, someone uses your mail server

Things like these are why I prefer to use AWS. You don't have to worry about all that, you just do what you got to do, and let them handle the rest.

@herrybiscuit I'd personally go with CSF :)

@linuxxx I was wondering which Linux distro you prefer for personal use?

@yendenikhil KDE Neon currently and I love it!

@linuxxx cool, m experimenting with fedora at the moment!

@yendenikhil I've used fedora for a while myself! Love the system only it uses quite some resources for me :/

@linuxxx just starting to learn the Linux administration basics (we gotta manage our infra stack ourselves in few months time), interesting and overwhelming!

I find understanding of concepts is what I need to learn a lot, commands are easy part! (Understanding network interface can be rabbit hole, damn)

Got more respect of sysadmins and curiosity about Linux (more than just preferred os)

@yendenikhil What basics are you learning exactly and what concepts do you mean? :D

In the mean time I'm installing two new vps's on my second dedicated server 😅

@linuxxx anyways to share signal contact number? Better than posting! I can make 10 min email address 😂

@yendenikhil You can email me at linuxxx@tuta.io ;)

@linuxxx in next couple of mins then!

@yendenikhil That number you sent me, the country code O_o

@linuxxx I thought you knew! Lol, if not then you are definitely surprised I would imagine. Haha.

@yendenikhil I didn't! I was like 'hmm the country code let's look.... Wait... Hold on.... One sec.... WAIT WHAT?! 😄

@linuxxx waiting for email, let me get my detective hat on, no time to waste 🕵️🕵️🕵️

😂😂😂

Wish I had seen your face at the moment. Lmao!