[Mimedefang] milter timing out.

-ray ray at ops.selu.edu
Tue Feb 3 12:45:11 EST 2004


On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Jon R. Kibler wrote:

>      a) Set the ConnectionRateThrottle option to a low value (4) so that
> sendmail will not accept more than 4 connections per second. Connections
> are not refused, sendmail just delays responding to them. (With MyDoom,
> we have seen connection rate bursts > 100 new connections/sec/MTA.)

Dumb question, but how are you determining your ConnectionRate?  I'm 
hesitant to throttle it before i know what a "good" number for our system 
is.  thanks.

ray
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IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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