"Andy Abshagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We are in the midst of a security audit performed by Ernst & Young.
>They are claiming something about a DOS situation. What I need to
>find out is whether there are any known DOS situations out there. If
>so what needs to be done to take care of the problem.
If you're not running qmail-smtpd under some kind of memory limit
(e.g., via ulimit or softlimit) it can be made to consume all
available memory. The "Life with qmail" installation uses
softlimit. See also:
http://cr.yp.to/docs/resources.html
For more background.
-Dave
