Re: Bad logins bogging down server

2017-09-19 Thread Dan White
On 09/19/17 11:28 -0400, Michael Sofka wrote: On 09/19/2017 10:12 AM, Dan White wrote: The botnet is still hammering away, checking those old accounts.  But the bottleneck appears to have been saslauthd threads.  Doubling the thread count from 5 to 10 has resolved the problem for now.  (And,

Re: Bad logins bogging down server

2017-09-19 Thread Michael Sofka
On 09/19/2017 10:12 AM, Dan White wrote: The botnet is still hammering away, checking those old accounts.  But the bottleneck appears to have been saslauthd threads.  Doubling the thread count from 5 to 10 has resolved the problem for now.  (And, If you're comfortable with caching, increase

Re: Bad logins bogging down server

2017-09-19 Thread Dan White
On 09/19/17 09:52 -0400, Michael Sofka wrote: The botnet is still hammering away, checking those old accounts. But the bottleneck appears to have been saslauthd threads. Doubling the thread count from 5 to 10 has resolved the problem for now. (And, If you're comfortable with caching,

Re: Bad logins bogging down server

2017-09-19 Thread Michael Sofka
Follow up The botnet is still hammering away, checking those old accounts. But the bottleneck appears to have been saslauthd threads. Doubling the thread count from 5 to 10 has resolved the problem for now. (And, might even explain the occasional slow response from IMAP I've observed.)

Bad logins bogging down server

2017-09-16 Thread Michael D. Sofka
I'm seeking help from the collective wisdom of the Cyrus world. In the past two days we have seen first a doubling, and then a quadrupling+ of badlogins to Cyrus. These appear to be coming from a botnet, in that the IPs are spread around in a way that evades fail2ban. It got so bad Friday