For what it is worth. In the past we did have "auto-deny possible hack attempts" turned on and it did prevent users (One large client using Nat) from sending email.
And I am conerend that Blackice will do the same. H. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 5:26 PM Subject: Re[7]: [IMail Forum] what a pain! > > You think I'm cheating by over-qualifying with "one minute" ? Make > > it 5 minutes, make it an hour, make a day...Statistically, it just > > doesn't happen. > > If you're saying that a hosting client (obviously, this was what the > post in question was referring to in using the word "client": > http://www.i360hosting.com) with 100+ users is never going to hit your > server 100 times an hour from the same IP, you've never run a hosting > company. Perhaps you're referring to ERRORS from a single IP, which is > a different story and certainly suspect. > > I'm sure you've misunderstood the issue, since surely you wouldn't > make such a mistake if you had all the variables in hand. Nobody said > anything about simultaneous connections (except you), merely the > likelihood of legit NAT clients being interpreted as a concentrated > attack over an period of time designed to catch baddies. As BlackIce > can be tweaked to accomodate whitelisted IPs and higher thresholds, > this is essentially a non-issue, but your conclusion is absolutely > wrong for a hosted environment. Grepping just proves this point. > > -Sandy > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
