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Date:      Mon, 25 Jul 2016 19:04:11 +0200
From:      "Ronald Klop" <ronald-lists@klop.ws>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Karl Denninger" <karl@denninger.net>
Subject:   Re: Postfix and tcpwrappers?
Message-ID:  <op.yk51o9vtkndu52@ronaldradial.radialsg.local>
In-Reply-To: <a3ad16f6-3bae-68dd-d4c7-9ed7cd223aa5@denninger.net>
References:  <a3ad16f6-3bae-68dd-d4c7-9ed7cd223aa5@denninger.net>

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On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:48:25 +0200, Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>  
wrote:

> This may not belong in "stable", but since Postfix is one of the
> high-performance alternatives to sendmail....
>
> Question is this -- I have sshguard protecting connections inbound, but
> Postfix appears to be ignoring it, which implies that it is not paying
> attention to the hosts.allow file (and the wrapper that enables it.)
>
> Recently a large body of clowncars have been targeting my sasl-enabled
> https gateway (which I use for client machines and thus do in fact need)
> and while sshguard picks up the attacks and tries to ban them, postfix
> is ignoring the entries it makes which implies it is not linked with the
> tcp wrappers.
>
> A quick look at the config for postfix doesn't disclose an obvious
> configuration solution....did I miss it?
>

Don't know if postfix can handle tcp wrappers, but I use bruteblock [1]  
for protecting connections via the ipfw firewall. I use this for ssh and  
postfix.

Regards,
Ronald.

[1] http://www.freshports.org/security/bruteblock/



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