From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 11 14:27:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stone.locallink.net (Stone.locallink.net [204.71.156.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D022837B416 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:27:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kpitcher@localhost) by stone.locallink.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fBBMSA653774 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:28:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:28:10 -0500 From: Keith Pitcher To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: default sendmail conf files Message-ID: <20011211172810.A52458@stone.locallink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Following is a brief bit of stupidity on my part (Assuming there had been no changes from the last install) but may be affecting others out there. After a machine died, I quickly put together another 4.4 box as a backup mx machine. After a few days I noticed an increase of about 2mpbs on our outgoing, about 1mpbs increase on our incoming feed. After eliminating the usualy suspects (no one left kazaa running untended) I found the problem being the new sendmail install. In my hurry to get sendmail going, I did not put in an /etc/mail/access or an /etc/mail/mailertable - just put in the relay-domains and local-hosts. The sample files were there, but the normal sendmail.cf was trying to access these files that weren't there. The lack of these files appears to have made the machine an open relay. Putting in these files stopped the open relay and dropped my bandwidth back to normal. I see there is a noticable file called /etc/mail/README that I overlooked - oops. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Keith Pitcher kpitcher@locallink.net LocalLink - Your Local Link to the World http://www.locallink.net 800 687-2202 616 424-4999 Fax : 616 424-4995 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message