Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 14:53:58 +0530 From: "Vishal Gandhi Kommineni" <vishal@southernonline.net> To: "Rayed Al-Rashed" <rayed@saudi.net.sa> Cc: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sendmail ignoring hosts.allow Message-ID: <006901c2b6f7$ac8e9d00$0b6f3fca@southernonline.net> References: <3E1AA183.1060604@saudi.net.sa> <005401c2b6f1$2aa49d40$0b6f3fca@southernonline.net> <3E1BEAC8.4000500@saudi.net.sa>
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in /etc/hosts.allow it should be ALL: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ( ip's you want to allow) in /etc/hosts.deny it should be ALL: ALL Vishal Gandhi Kommineni ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rayed Al-Rashed" <rayed@saudi.net.sa> To: "Vishal Gandhi Kommineni" <vishal@southernonline.net> Cc: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 2:39 PM Subject: Re: Sendmail ignoring hosts.allow > > Didn't work in both /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny > > > Vishal Gandhi Kommineni wrote: > > >try > >ALL: ALL > > > >Vishal Gandhi Kommineni > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Rayed Al-Rashed" <rayed@saudi.net.sa> > >To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> > >Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 3:14 PM > >Subject: Sendmail ignoring hosts.allow > > > > > > > > > >>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 > >> > >> > >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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