Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:26:48 -0500 (EST) From: Michael McDowell <mm@miata.ath.cx> To: Rayed Al-Rashed <rayed@saudi.net.sa> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail ignoring hosts.allow Message-ID: <20030108072118.M3165-100000@miata.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <3E1AA183.1060604@saudi.net.sa>
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Have you tryed specifing an IP in hosts.allow from which you could try a telnet to your machine from? This is an easy way to see if indeed tcpwrappers is working or not. M. McDowell On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Rayed Al-Rashed wrote: > 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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