Mark Rigby-Jones wrote: > On 30 Aug 2007, at 14:49, Philip Hazel wrote: > >> I have just put Exim release 4.68 on the primary ftp site: >> > ... > >> This release contains a number of new features >> > > Talk about a new release arriving just in the nick of time! Two of > those new features combined to help solve a problem I was having > yesterday afternoon. Allow me to explain: > > Briefly, we were having an issue with a spam attack from (presumably) > a zombie network, but to add to the fun the vast majority of the spam > connections were sitting doing nothing until exim timed them out > while waiting for a command. >
Interesting. I'm wondering if that is happening to me. The number of open connection to my main serve has increased by almost 10 times normal. I have the capacity to handle it and the load levels haven't increased. So maybe the same thing is happening to me as happening to you? -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
