Building the Network You Need with OpenBSD's PF: BSDCan, Ottawa May 6th, 2009
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# Giving spammers a hard time (cont'd)

But the record did not stand for long:

    peter@delilah:~$ grep disconnected /var/log/spamd | awk '{print $9}' | sort -rn | uniq -c | head
       1 42673
       1 36099
       1 14714
       1 10170
       1 5966
       1 5878
       1 5866
       1 5845
       1 5709
       1 5707

42673 seconds = almost twelve hours! (others have reported >60K seconds)

    Dec 21 14:22:44 delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: connected (5/2)
    Dec 21 14:22:46 delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: connected (6/2)
    Dec 21 14:22:47 delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected
    after 3 seconds.
    Dec 22 02:13:59 delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected
    after 42673 seconds.