On Monday, March 1, 2004, 13:12:45, 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.
>
> If it is, they probably hurt themselves much more than they hurt
> postfix. postfix overhead in anvil rejections is extremely low, and a
> postfix smtpd process that anvil rejects for is liberated instantly.
If it's a virus infested spam relay they might not care, they probably
have 1000's of others at their disposal.
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