Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261771AbTIYINK (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 04:13:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261600AbTIYINK (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 04:13:10 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:58895 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261771AbTIYINF (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 04:13:05 -0400 Message-ID: <3F72A59D.4000407@aitel.hist.no> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:21:49 +0200 From: Helge Hafting Organization: AITeL, HiST User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: no, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Johnson, Richard" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [OT] Re: Horiffic SPAM References: <20030923183648.GE1269@velociraptor.random> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1151 Lines: 31 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > >>On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:11:59PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: >> > Well it seems that fire-walling the SPAM servers is *not* a good idea. > They are persistant, gang up, and will not give up until they are > able to deliver the mail! When I firewall them, my network traffic According to standards they will give up after 5 days or so. > ends up being continuous SYN floods as every spam-server in the > country tries to connect. It doesn't do any good to set `ipchains` to > REJECT instead of DENY. They just keep on banging on the door. > Have you considered teergrubing them instead? That ought to fix the bandwith problem. And it is not so fun for whoever has the spam server either - either disrupting some spammers operation or harassing some server admin into making his box un-abuseable. Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/