Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Okay, I'll try again. I guess I'm asking this question wrong. For the kind folk that replied privately, I am uninterested in outsourcing anything, especially my mail servers.
> My current approach is to kill -9 sendmail on the machines until the > automated scanners give up and go away, and then go back in and restart > it. This is a bit cumbersome, and very annoying. I had actually been very hopeful that someone would hand me a nice Sendmail solution, dang it. > Ideas? Okay, here it is. Almost any email directed at the machines is not valid. I don't care about stopping spam (because if it was actually directed at a legitimate user, it almost certainly would not be spam), I care about slowing or stopping the automated attacks. I note Scott's response on the pf rule, and that's actually not bad, except that the machines only have Sendmail in common. I have Slackware, Fedora, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD, all running various versions of sendmail. Spamd sounds pretty close to what I had in mind. If I can figure out how to get it going on the ancient Slackware install that I'm fond of, it may just be the ticket. Still, I'm open to other stuff, if there's something more generic. -- Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. Brian W. Kernighan _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
