On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > > Yesterday 50K. (grep 'stat=Sent' /var/log/syslog.01 | wc). More actually > > come in, of course.. > > I would need a total volume to comment. > > You have to limit your sendmail process. Figure that otherwise a DoS could > take down your box. 200 simulataneous connections is fairly easy to do. > > > So you would do define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN',`100'), or somesuch? And > > what happens if someone hammers us? > > I would do: > > define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN', `60')dnl
Thanks Kevin. Would you recommend any other sendmail tuning, like below? I can see how this could be useful, but I don't have a good feel for what the appropriate settings might be. define(`confQUEUE_LA',`85') define(`confREFUSE_LA',`85') define(`confDELAY_LA',`50') define(`confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE',`5') define(`confNICE_QUEUE_RUN',`3')dnl _________________________ Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
