Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:58:02 -0500 From: Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> To: "Bender, Chris" <chris_bender@cellularatsea.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email issues, relay failure Message-ID: <4F4BB61A.1060600@radel.com> In-Reply-To: <assp.0404fbad3d.863259E16B6C464DAD1E9DD10BB31154059CFDA4@wmsexg01.corp.cellularatsea.com> References: <863259E16B6C464DAD1E9DD10BB31154059CFBAE@wmsexg01.corp.cellularatsea.com> <4F48BAF6.9070204@ifdnrg.com> <863259E16B6C464DAD1E9DD10BB31154059CFBE7@wmsexg01.corp.cellularatsea.com> <4F48EC21.7040805@ifdnrg.com> <863259E16B6C464DAD1E9DD10BB31154059CFBEE@wmsexg01.corp.cellularatsea.com> <4F48F45F.4080304@ifdnrg.com> <863259E16B6C464DAD1E9DD10BB31154059CFBF4@wmsexg01.corp.cellularatsea.com> <4F492262.5090505@radel.com> <7409DAB4-F76A-493B-9A50-A663E6F6802E@cellularatsea.com> <4F4BB19A.8040005@radel.com> <assp.0404fbad3d.863259E16B6C464DAD1E9DD10BB31154059CFDA4@wmsexg01.corp.cellularatsea.com>
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On 2/27/12 11:45 AM, Bender, Chris wrote: > I was thinking about just reloading the pf.conf but I have never worked > with pf so > I am worried other things might break. My thought was by doing that the > Adaptive part of the pfctl would be restarted? Any pf.conf file I've ever seen does something sensible after reload. I suspect one could write something perverse that blows up on restart, but that would making rebooting the machine problematic.... > > Does that make sense would reloading the rules wash the adaptive > behavior away or > Would all that still be in some sort of bruteforce file to protect the > firewall? pf can load data from files when it starts or just manage things in a fashion that is transient upon restart. Hard to say what's happening in your case w/o a clue as to what's in pf.conf. I'd suggest that you at the very least whitelist internal SMTP speakers that you expect to get e-mail from on a regular basis, even if you do throttling of SMTP connections in general. Much less messy.... -- --Jon Radel jon@radel.comhelp
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