Bryan Scott wrote: > > > Robin Bowes wrote: >> Bryan Scott wrote: >>> Is there a way we could get the forkserver code to look up an IP >>> in a flat file, DNSBL, or other such system to immediately close >>> connections from certain addresses? At times my system gets so >>> busy with connections I'm going to junk anyway, why not (do the >>> politically incorrect thing and) just drop connections from >>> blacklisted IP addresses? Similar to (but not quite the same as) >>> using rblsmtpd with tcprules. >> >> Isn't that what "hosts_allow" does? > > Does what? Allow me to query a DNSBL before I decide whether or not > to allow the connection? Otherwise, I don't think I could store > sbl-xbl in a hosts_allow file...
You said: > "Is there a way we could get the forkserver code to look up an IP in a > flat file ... to immediately close connections from certain addresses" hosts_allow does that. R.
