[vchkpw] How I can deny smtp request from a known IP address

2005-04-13 Thread Manish Jain
I am facing aproblem that from an IP address SPAM is coming to my qmail server. How I can deny smtp request from a known IP address. Please HELP!!! Manish Jain(Network Administrator)C-DAC "Anusandhan Bhawan"C-56/1, Sector-62, Noida- 210307Ph: 91 120 2402551-60 (Extn.- 718) 91 120 2402563

Re: [vchkpw] How I can deny smtp request from a known IP address

2005-04-13 Thread Stoyan Marinov
Title: Blank Add a line like ip:deny in your tcp.smtp file and rebuild it. Stoyan On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:08, Manish Jain wrote: I am facing aproblem that from an IP address SPAM is coming to my qmail server. How I can deny smtp request from a known IP address. Please HELP!!!

Re: [vchkpw] How I can deny smtp request from a known IP address

2005-04-13 Thread Bernd
Hi! Urgent, huh? :-) I suppose the fastest way is by blocking it with pf, ipf, ipfw, iptables, ... (depending on the platform you are using) Greets, Bernd On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 17:38 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: I am facing aproblem that from an IP address SPAM is coming to my qmail

Re: [vchkpw] How I can deny smtp request from a known IP address

2005-04-13 Thread Bernd
Ok, this might be even faster ;-) Greets, Bernd On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:13 +0300, Stoyan Marinov wrote: Add a line like ip:deny in your tcp.smtp file and rebuild it. Stoyan On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:08, Manish Jain wrote: I am facing aproblem that from an IP address SPAM is coming

Re: [vchkpw] How I can deny smtp request from a known IP address

2005-04-13 Thread Boris Pavlov
if it is a massive spam, better filter it out with packet filter - iptables, ipchains pf etc, it depends from the OS you're using. the fastest possible (the command is under linux) way to effective block is with route route add -host 1.1.1.1 gw 127.0.0.1 the line in tcp.smtp (and rebuild with

Re: [vchkpw] How I can deny smtp request from a known IP address

2005-04-13 Thread Stoyan Marinov
It's also a solution, but this way the connections will be accepted by the tcpserver and a qmail-smtpd process will be started. I wouldn't do it this way. Stoyan On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:48, Boris Pavlov wrote: if it is a massive spam, better filter it out with packet filter - iptables,

Re: [vchkpw] How I can deny smtp request from a known IP address

2005-04-13 Thread Aran Clary Deltac
BlankI am facing aproblem that from an IP address SPAM is coming to my qmail server. How I can deny smtp request from a known IP address. Manish, this is really off-topic and doesn't have much to do with vpopmail. In any case, check out the -x switch to tcpserver. Aran Please HELP!!!

Re: [vchkpw] How I can deny smtp request from a known IP address

2005-04-13 Thread Boris Pavlov
yep, the best is to drop silently the packets from the offending host, causing timeouts to the attacker, with a packet filter. still, iptables or pf are not an option sometimes. Stoyan Marinov wrote: OK, you're right. It really doesn't start a qmail-smtpd process. Anyway I don't like it and I