From owner-freebsd-security Thu May 3 14: 2: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from R181204.resnet.ucsb.edu (R181204.resnet.ucsb.edu [128.111.181.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA2E237B43F for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 14:01:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mudman@R181204.resnet.ucsb.edu) Received: from localhost (mudman@localhost) by R181204.resnet.ucsb.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f43L8tG26791; Thu, 3 May 2001 14:08:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mudman@R181204.resnet.ucsb.edu) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 14:08:54 -0700 (PDT) From: mudman To: "Timothy S. Bowers" Cc: Subject: Re: reverse or not In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 3 May 2001, mudman wrote: > > Another thing: if I plug out all the network cables and reboot so that the box isn't connected to anything then "telnet 127.0.0.1 25" works perfectly. > > Some of the others will probably have much more useful insights. > However, you seem to say: > 1) I have slow response time > 2) when I unplug from internet, response time increases. > > Someone hitting you with some kind of DoS or packet spam? > I cannot say if it has anything to do with the resolver or not, but maybe > some of the others can. Nevermind, I'm stupid. That doesn't make sense for localhost. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message