On 8/30/07, Tobias J. Kreidl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, but that limits inbound connections from *all* hosts, > not just for a particular host that connects more often than "on average". > With policyd, you could specify limits for specific IP addresses, if > desired. As I mentioned before, you can also do that with the "anvil" > facility within postfix. And a big difference is that policyd will > allow multiple SMTP servers to access a common DB. > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, am.lists wrote: > > > On 8/29/07, Cami Sardinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> am.lists wrote: > >>> Recently, I was emailing a system admin at one of the major ISPs. He > >>> told me that we were blocked for going over their throttle limits, > >>> which he described as 10 simultaneous connections per IP and 100 > >>> messages per hour. > >>> > >>> Now. I use policyd 1.8x and know that I can do the #/per hour part, > >>> but how do I limit the number of inbound connections? Is that more at > >>> the Postfix level? I run in a distributed environment (one primary > >>> MySQL db), how do I enforce a connection limit across the environment? > >> > >> Indeed, this needs to be done at the Postfix level. > >> > >> /etc/postfix/master.cf > >> .. > >> smtp inet n - n - 10 smtpd > >> .. > >> > >> Thats for limiting inbound connections. > >> > >> Cami > > > > Cami - thanks for that. > > > > Angelo > >
You have all supplied the information I was after -- essentially, I cannot aggregate [and thus limit] simultaneous connections across smtp hosts, but I can use policyd to enforce the aggregate total via the throttle mechanism from one central policyd db. Thanks... Angelo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ policyd-users mailing list policyd-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/policyd-users
