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Date:      Tue, 07 Jan 2003 12:44:35 +0300
From:      Rayed Al-Rashed <rayed@saudi.net.sa>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Sendmail ignoring hosts.allow
Message-ID:  <3E1AA183.1060604@saudi.net.sa>

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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


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