Is there something better to use than relay for addresses to stop this?
-----Original Message-----
From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 9:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Possible DoS attack
>Hello,
> I had a large amount of mail run through my server and i have
locked
>my server down, where it must but sent from within my ip blocks. So
>where is all this mail coming from? The just sit there in que thats
why
>i believe it must have been some sort of Dos attack. I have loaded all
>the current patch from imail so i thought. Any info would be
>appreciated.
if an attacker is spoofing your ip addresses, the relay for addresses is
useless.
look in you log file, you�ll need decent editor to look a biggish log
file.
Len
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