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.

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