On Monday, March 1, 2004, 12:38:21, Len Conrad wrote: > I've observed some insane behavior by several MTAs that, when > anvilled, will, rather than backing off and re-trying some interval later, > re-try immediately, at 10 to 20 TCP connects per SECOND, for 1000s and > 1000s of connections. > > Some of these seems to be web apps (rather than real MTAs) that are only an > SMTP client running in a tight loop.
Perhaps its some form of auto-DoS to try & get back at people using the anvil feature. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rod Dorman A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
