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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
>
>
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