From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 8 4:33:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B19F237B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 04:33:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from riy-01-s1.saudi.net.sa (riy-01-s1.saudi.net.sa [212.118.133.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2BC443ED8 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 04:33:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rayed@saudi.net.sa) Received: from saudi.net.sa (riy-ol-ws1.saudi.net.sa [212.118.133.49]) by riy-01-s1.saudi.net.sa (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h08CdcA3050326; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:39:38 +0300 (AST) (envelope-from rayed@saudi.net.sa) Message-ID: <3E1C1A81.3080207@saudi.net.sa> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 15:33:05 +0300 From: Rayed Al-Rashed User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael McDowell Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail ignoring hosts.allow References: <20030108072118.M3165-100000@miata.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20030108072118.M3165-100000@miata.ath.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yes, I did. Actually I tried ALL after the IP didn't work with me! Michael McDowell wrote: >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