That happened to us nearly two years ago and continued for almost a month. I
stopped it by pulling the offending IPs from the logs until it finally
ended. I found where the IPs were being used over and over, but there were a
lot of them. Eventually I got them all; what a pain it was.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerry Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 8:31 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Daily Dictionary Attacks
> This is the 10th consecutive day I have had a dictionary attack on my mail
> server. So far so good as far as defending spam, but now it's starting to
> really bug me having to waste the resources to say no to each Recpt to in
> each mail they are sending. What can I do now ?
>
> Is there any way to get this bastards. They keep changing addresses, but
> the lists contents seem to rotate every day or so. It appears to happen
> each day between 22:00 and 01:00.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Gerry
>
>
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