Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:13:10 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: "Mr. K." <bsd@a.servers.aozilla.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail blocking of spammers (was Re: hackers?) Message-ID: <199909222013.NAA05832@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:39:05 EDT." <3.0.5.32.19990921153905.01499100@staff.sentex.ca>
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In message <3.0.5.32.19990921153905.01499100@staff.sentex.ca>, Mike Tancsa writ es: > >I think I figured out what is happening. The relaying is indeed getting > >denied, but unfortunately some of the spammers software is waiting blindly > >for a positive response (and thus keeping a connection until they time > >out). My choices seem to be ipfw (which I don't want to do as I don't > >want to block all aol users), or somehow getting sendmail to disconnect on > >a "relaying denied" (instead of sitting there until they timeout). I > >can't figure out how to do the latter (doesn't seem to be possible). And > >of course calling AOL and bitching, at least that will feel good if I can > >get a bunch of these spammers booted. > > You have another option. If you have tcp_wrappers installed (its installed > in all 3.[2|3] versions by default), you can deny by sub domain. The > spammers are coming from *.ipt.aol.com. Block from that subdomain on. AOL > for its mail exchangers are all of the form xx.mx.aol.com, not ipt.aol.com > e.g. > aol.com preference = 15, mail exchanger = zd.mx.aol.com Or try the smtpd port. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Open Systems Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca Province of BC "e**(i*pi)+1=0" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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