From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 8 0:37:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A68237B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:37:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from pdn.southernonline.net (southernonline.net [202.63.96.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72D3243E4A for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:37:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vishal@southernonline.net) Received: (qmail 21810 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2003 08:59:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO inetter) (202.63.111.11) by mail.southernonline.net with SMTP; 8 Jan 2003 08:59:50 -0000 Message-ID: <005401c2b6f1$2aa49d40$0b6f3fca@southernonline.net> From: "Vishal Gandhi Kommineni" To: "Rayed Al-Rashed" , References: <3E1AA183.1060604@saudi.net.sa> Subject: Re: Sendmail ignoring hosts.allow Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 14:07:23 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org try ALL: ALL Vishal Gandhi Kommineni ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rayed Al-Rashed" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 3:14 PM Subject: Sendmail ignoring hosts.allow > 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