Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 14:07:23 +0530 From: "Vishal Gandhi Kommineni" <vishal@southernonline.net> To: "Rayed Al-Rashed" <rayed@saudi.net.sa>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sendmail ignoring hosts.allow Message-ID: <005401c2b6f1$2aa49d40$0b6f3fca@southernonline.net> References: <3E1AA183.1060604@saudi.net.sa>
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try ALL: ALL Vishal Gandhi Kommineni ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rayed Al-Rashed" <rayed@saudi.net.sa> To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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