On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Mark Rigby-Jones wrote:

| In this particular case, they were - in fact they were even opening  
| multiple simultaneous connections (until I dropped  
| smtp_accept_max_per_host from 4 to 1 for off-net hosts) and re- 
| connecting quite aggressively each time a connection was timed out.  
| This, from numerous (dozens, certainly) different IP addresses to  
| multiple mail servers on our side. After I made those changes, the  
| number of concurrent connections began to drop down from being nailed  
| up to the limit as it had been since the attack started, allowing  
| legitimate emails to get through.

Thanks for the interesting insight.

Chris

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