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Re: Distributed spam attack.

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Subject: Re: Distributed spam attack.
From: Ajai Khattri <ajai@bitblit.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:26:59 -0500 (EST)
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Matt wrote:

> So I've searched around but haven't found any real solutions (in fact,
> there may not be any solutions).  For the past week one of my virtual
> domains has been slammed by what appears to be a distributed spam
> attack.  I have the validrcptto patch
> (http://qmail.jms1.net/patches/combined-6c5.shtml)
> installed - so at least I don't have 80,000 messages trying to bounce.
> At first it was a big deal because it assisted in maxing out my remote
> concurrency, but that has subsided quite a bit now - so now it's just
> annoying me.  Is there any real solutions to deal with this?  I could
> add the ip addresses to my iptables . . . but boy would that be a lot of
> ip's.

If you had some greylisting system you could filter out all the zombie PCs 
pretty easily...


-- 
Aj.


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