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If you plug-gw it, you can also just tcp_wrap it, and then use your hosts.allow, etc.. to stop spammers. On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 10:16:39PM -0700, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Kai Schlichting wrote: > > THEY WILL FIND YOUR RELAYS ON THEIR OWN, AND THEY WILL ABUSE THEM, NO > > MATTER HOW LOUD YOU SCREAM. > > In transition to a new mail server (with a new address), I installed a > plug-gateway on the old server to redirect mail. > > Unfortunately, plugd hides the ip address of the sender, and since I trust > my netblocks, all of the ip addresses on the old server became "spam relay > entry points". > > It took the spammers 96 hours to find 3 of the addresses on that box and > for us to be listed in orbs. I figured I would have at least had a week > or two to figure out a better way. > > I ended up staying up all night getting transparent proxying to work right > on the new server and making it work with a cisco route-map. -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from [email protected] clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine. END OF LINE |
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