Re: Qmail attack

[Nick (Keith) Fish]

Renato wrote:
>
> Well, naturally somebody can connect to port 25 and send this mail with
> these headers. But the attacker used a script and sent the same message
> thousands of time !!! My queue grow to more than 10.000 messages in
> minutes !!
> 
> What can I do to avoid this type of attack ?
> 
> Thanks
> Renato - Brazil.

Are you using inetd or xinetd? tcpwrapper or ucspi-tcp?

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Keith
Network Engineer
Triton Technologies, Inc.
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