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From: Olivier Cherrier <Olivier.Cherrier@cediti.be>
To: 'Rayed Al-Rashed' <rayed@saudi.net.sa>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: Sendmail ignoring hosts.allow
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:10:17 +0100 
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> 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.

Use a packet filter as IPFW or IPF for this purpose.
It is far more powerfull and flexible.

oc

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