Jason is correct - this is the right way. My suggestions had an assumption the actual right way wouldn't be accepted, but really, in 2013, there really shouldn't be an excuse.
On 7/31/13 5:13 PM, "Jason Frisvold" <[email protected]> wrote: >Sallee, Stephen (Jake) wrote: >> What makes it tough is that I am an unofficial ISP. I have several >>thousand devices all D'NATed to that IP, and what's more, is that 2/3 of >>those devices are owned by students and are therefore are not managed by >>me. > >Been there, done that. SMTP-AUTH. Makes tracking down the offending >user really simple. > >You also want to get into the feedback loops for the big players. AOL, >Hotmail, etc. You get a lot of junk back from them, but you also get >fairly quick notification of bad actors. > >> I almost want to leave it, I have wanted to shut down SMTP from my >>public NAT for a long time but each time I do, some users throw a fit >>because they have software that wants to act as a SMTP server ... BUT >>... this way, it still doesn't work ... and, I can say I didn't do it. > >Shut down public and whitelist those that "need" to have their boxen be >able to relay. > >It's a pain to start down this road, but the headaches it saves later >are worth it. > >> Is that bad? > >Might cause you a headache, but it will at least show them the >consequences of their actions.. Of course, most users don't seem to >care about that.. "Just make it work, you're the admin aren't you?" > >> Jake Sallee > > >-- >--------------------------- >Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold >[email protected] >--------------------------- > >"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.\" >- Niven's Inverse of Clarke's Third Law > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- >Get your SQL database under version control now! >Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent >caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under >version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. >http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktr >k >_______________________________________________ >PacketFence-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
