Russell Nelson writes:
> Anand Buddhdev writes:
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 10:34:25AM +0300, Georgi Kupenov wrote:
> >
> > To ban a certain host from connecting to you, put the following at the
> > top of the tcp.smtp rules file and rebuild it with tcprules:
> >
> > [ip.address.of.bad.host]:deny
>
> That causes problems, though. Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom (we
> wouldn't have Melissa without Microsoft products to propogate it --
> Unix-only houses have been blissfully ignorant) causes some version of
> their mailer to retry upon failure to get a prompt. Denial of service
> attacker, as designed. By a major US corporation.
No problem. Router firewall.
--
Sam
