Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 15:33:05 +0300 From: Rayed Al-Rashed <rayed@saudi.net.sa> To: Michael McDowell <mm@miata.ath.cx> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail ignoring hosts.allow Message-ID: <3E1C1A81.3080207@saudi.net.sa> In-Reply-To: <20030108072118.M3165-100000@miata.ath.cx> References: <20030108072118.M3165-100000@miata.ath.cx>
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Yes, I did. Actually I tried ALL after the IP didn't work with me! Michael McDowell wrote: >Have you tryed specifing an IP in hosts.allow from which you could >try a telnet to your machine from? This is an easy way to see if >indeed tcpwrappers is working or not. > >M. McDowell > >On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Rayed Al-Rashed wrote: > > > >>Hi, >> >>Our mail server was under DOS attack, and I was trying to stop the new >>connections using /etc/hosts.allow but I couldn't do it. >> >>The entry in /etc/hosts.allow: >> >> sendmail : xx.xx.xx.xx : DENY >> >>and I even tried: >> >> ALL : ALL : DENY >> >>but still doesn't work, I installed sendmail from the port, and I also >>checked tcpwrapper support: >>--------------------------------------------------- >># sendmail -d0.1 >>Version 8.12.1 >> Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 >> NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING >> SCANF TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG >>--------------------------------------------------- >>The /etc/mailer.conf also points to the port version. >>Any ideas on why it doesn't work!! >> >>P.S. I just added an entry on /etc/mail/access to reject emails from >>that IP but sendmail still need to fork. >> >> >>Thanks, >>- rayed >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message >> >> >> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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