Re: postfix SAV tarpitted

From: Len Conrad (no email)
Date: Sun Oct 02 2005 - 08:30:57 EDT

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    >The smtp processes should eventually time out.

    mx1# postconf | egrep "smtp_.*timeout"
    smtp_connect_timeout = 60s
    smtp_data_done_timeout = 60s
    smtp_data_init_timeout = 60s
    smtp_data_xfer_timeout = 60s
    smtp_helo_timeout = 60s
    smtp_mail_timeout = 60s
    smtp_quit_timeout = 60s
    smtp_rcpt_timeout = 60s
    smtp_rset_timeout = 20s
    ...

    ... not if there were some kind of SMTP activity

    >But what do they do to keep the session from timing out?

    Somebody said some infra-SMTP TCP trick, but that would have been not
    seen by postfix as smtp activity, so postfix would have smtp timed.

    I wanted to fix the SMTP problem quickly, not research bit and
    bytes. Perhaps smtp sessions were timing out and quickly
    re-connecting, since after a postfix start, the number smtp
    connections to them rose and stabilized quickly, rather than a gradual ramp up.

    It's easy enough for anybody interested in the tarpitting details to
    point their postfix smtp at those IPs.
    For those Class Cs, the only host addresses I saw were in the range
    .1 - .7, nothing higher.

    imgate# telnet 204.9.246.1
    Trying 204.9.246.1...
    ^C

    imgate# telnet 204.9.246.2
    Trying 204.9.246.2...
    ^C

    imgate# telnet 204.9.246.3
    Trying 204.9.246.3...
    ^C

    imgate# telnet 204.9.246.4
    Trying 204.9.246.4...
    ^C

    imgate# telnet 204.9.246.5
    Trying 204.9.246.5...
    telnet: connect to address 204.9.246.5: Connection refused
    telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

    imgate# telnet 204.9.246.6
    Trying 204.9.246.6...
    telnet: connect to address 204.9.246.6: Connection refused
    telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

    imgate# telnet 204.9.246.7
    Trying 204.9.246.7...
    telnet: connect to address 204.9.246.7: Connection refused
    telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

    However, perhaps their tarpitting daemon waited for specific SAV
    "RCTP TO: " before tarpitting.

    Here are the totals/day of smtp timeouts to those Class Cs:

    mx1# zegrep -ic "... .. ........ ... postfix/smtp\[.*204.9.24.*timed"
    /var/log/maillog.[0-9].gz
    /var/log/maillog.0.gz:45848
    /var/log/maillog.1.gz:128552
    /var/log/maillog.2.gz:40818
    /var/log/maillog.3.gz:55149
    /var/log/maillog.4.gz:0
    /var/log/maillog.5.gz:9488
    /var/log/maillog.6.gz:3405
    /var/log/maillog.7.gz:3242
    /var/log/maillog.8.gz:1357
    /var/log/maillog.9.gz:0

    ... perhaps there was not tricky tarpitting tricks going, but simply
    their port 25 that were extremely slow combined with the sheer
    volume of spam from them, causing our SAV to have 200+ smtp sessions
    tied up continuously.

    Our MX runs postgrey, so here are the qty of reject: per domain.tld
    for the sender@*.domain.tld that were greylisted from those ClassC's
    in the last 10 days:

    mx1# zegrep -i "... .. ........ ... postfix/smtpd\[.*reject:
    .*204.9.24.\." /var/log/maillog.[0-9].gz |\
      awk '{print $(NF-3)}' |\
      cut -d @ -f 2 | tr -d ">" |\
      cut -d "." -f 2,3 |\
      sort -fn |\
      uniq -ic |\
      less

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    Len

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