From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 26 22:26:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E666214C1E for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 22:26:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA59290; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 01:26:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 01:26:12 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filtering port 25 (was Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sep 26 Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > I'm sure you know all about how UUNET is setup. :) I learned all I ever want to know about that outfit after enduring a few days of, sporadic, several hundreds per hour relay attempts From: xxxx@aol.com To: xxxx@aol.com (where xxxx was slang for various sexual acts and genitalia) from a few .da.uu.net IPs. Hours on the phone with their "abuse team" proved them to be sympathetic, but totally ineffective. A few minutes with vi and sendmail.cf provided the cure. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message