Daniel Lorch wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > hi, > > | | If you don't have enough capacity to do the 5xx errors on the main > | | mail servers then setup another (small) machine and redirect (instead > | | of blocking) all connections to that box and let it emit 5xx errors. > | | That can be a very small and fast deamon. It can reject maaaany > | | connections per second. Even if it is too slow it doesn't matter > | | much. Important is that sometime soon there will be a 5xx error > | | and the sending mail server stops trying. We could write such a > | | small 5xx error deamon if you need one. It's not a big thing. > | > | Too much effort. And writing a proxy always gets you into the > | same trouble again: From the smtpd's point of view the connections > | come from localhost (or from wherever you installed that proxy). > > Hmm .. I just assumed you meant proxy, but when reading your > text again you could have meant virtually anything with > "redirecting". So my apologies if I got you wrong. > > Oh and sorry for stealing a potential job from you. I'm sure > we can send the 150 CHF/h bill (combined effort) to cablecom > and split the profit in half.
I doubt they use Linux for firewalls in front of the mail servers. So your solutions probably doesn't work as such. > If the inetd-Solution does not work, I offer "451"-Hosting for > 0.01 CHF per discarded connection on high-speed, redundant, > state-of-the-art servers. Can anyone do that cheaper? huh? I'll do it for CHF 0.009 per connection ;) -- Andre ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
