Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 12:40:02 +0300 From: Rayed Al-Rashed <rayed@saudi.net.sa> To: Vishal Gandhi Kommineni <vishal@southernonline.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail ignoring hosts.allow Message-ID: <3E1BF1F2.4090205@saudi.net.sa> In-Reply-To: <006901c2b6f7$ac8e9d00$0b6f3fca@southernonline.net> References: <3E1AA183.1060604@saudi.net.sa> <005401c2b6f1$2aa49d40$0b6f3fca@southernonline.net> <3E1BEAC8.4000500@saudi.net.sa> <006901c2b6f7$ac8e9d00$0b6f3fca@southernonline.net>
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In /etc/hosts.deny I put ALL : ALL and restarted sendmail and it still ignores it. I remembered one thing, I have 2 IPs one that server, does this have any effect?! Thanks - rayed Vishal Gandhi Kommineni wrote: >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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