Re: policy server for mail bombing control?

From: Cami (no email)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2005 - 09:44:23 EST

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    Forrest Aldrich wrote:
    > A great example of where this is highly effective is the automated
    > spamming bots... last night, one of my servers got slammed with over
    > 170 different connections (all bots, presumably). ALL connections were
    > useless to them, and nothing got submitted (just a big syslog for me to
    > look at). That other server is running Sendmail-8.13.
    >
    > There are schools of thought against this tactic, but I digress... the
    > evidence that it works is clearly there.
    >
    > In either case, this could be accomplished in a "policy server", though
    > I'd just assume have a main.cf variable to trigger. (and I'd write it if
    > I were a programmer!).

    This is not possible in a policy server.

    Cami


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