I'm intrigued by this idea. During a given minute of time I may get 1000 messages.
1/4 of them are slown down (occupying more SMTP/Declude sessions), but the burdon is
spread out.
Can this be applied to increase server capacity? If I throttle, at the firewall, the
IPs of spammers, will the
I'm intrigued by this idea. During a given minute of time I may get 1000
messages. 1/4 of them are slown down (occupying more SMTP/Declude
sessions), but the burdon is spread out.
Actually, with true tarpitting, there would be slightly fewer SMTP32.exe
and Declude.exe processes (they would
Alligate does it :) (The gateway version anyway)
On 06/18/03 3:25pm you wrote...
It would be less, assuming that IMail can handle it (and that your firewall
can do the tarpitting). I'm not aware of any firewalls that can do true
SMTP tarpitting (which requires sending short bits of data
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I'm intrigued by this idea. During a given minute of time I may get 1000
messages. 1/4 of them are slown down (occupying more SMTP/Declude
sessions
Interesting Scott,
I'm not sure I want to do true tarpitting, I want the spam to get through eventually
(just in case its not), just way after the legitimate stuff. I use Netscreen
firewalls and their technical info says throttling to less than 10kbps risks dropping
the connection. The idea
through many different servers.
Just thinking outloud.
Rick Davidson
Buckeye Internet Inc
www.buckeyeweb.com
440-953-1900 ext: 222
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I'm intrigued by this idea. During a given minute of time I may get 1000
messages. 1/4 of them are slown down (occupying more SMTP/Declude
sessions), but the burdon is spread out.
Can this be applied to increase
I'm not sure I want to do true tarpitting, I want the spam to get
through eventually (just in case its not), just way after the legitimate stuff.
True tarpitting will allow the E-mail through. The idea is that it will
have to wait a long, long time -- something that a legitimate mailserver
and send mail only at the speed that IMail can handle
I'm curious, what rate did you find Imail capable of handling before it stopped
responding?
Bill
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and send mail only at the speed that IMail can handle
I'm curious, what rate did you find Imail capable of handling before it
stopped responding?
Bill
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