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 22659
   1 18693
   1 14714
   1 10170
   1 6316
   1 6200
   1 6199
   1 6194

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.

Also see Connection lengths