Date: 2004-04-22T21:51:44 Editor: 168.209.97.34 <> Wiki: Apache James Wiki Page: NoFastFail URL: http://wiki.apache.org/james/NoFastFail
no comment Change Log: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ Admitedly there '''are''' people who want to create a denial-of-service situation. These are very straight-forward and often easily handled with a basic message-rate cap. ''Unfortunately, the Sobig.F attack provides a massive counter-example. Pipeline filtering can consume even large servers. One effective counter-measure against Sobig.F is described [http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200308/msg00159.html here] and relies upon limited fast-fail.'' -(Riaan Nolan) but as the author of the mail himself said, this would only be a limited fix, it's also poor conduct to block bad HELOs, thus, it would be foolish to suggest a ix like this. * '''I don't want to waste my CPU cycles and disk space''' The amount of CPU cycles and disk space to handle spam is trivial, until you approach a denial of service level. Email is incredibly easy to process to modern equipment, and hardware is almost never the limitation.
