[Mimedefang] contrib: relay_is_blacklisted_with_timeout

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Wed Jan 21 12:57:54 EST 2004


Am Mi, den 21.01.2004 schrieb Anthony.Caetano at t-systems.co.za um 14:14:
> Hi
> 
> I am new to this list, but couldn't find something like this in the 
> archives.  Here is a contribution of a perl function which is rather 
> clearly named.  Firstly, I Am Not A Perl Hacker, and this was 
> painstakingly pieced together from tutorials and snippets and man pages. 
> So this may suck and there may be better ways of doing this.  If so please 
> let me know.
> 
> It is working on RedHat 9, 2.4.23-pre7 #4 SMP, perl-5.8.0-88.3, mimedefang 2.35.

kernel 2.4.23-pre7 - oops, you should urgently upgrade your kernel to
the latest available!
(2.4.23->2.4.24: fix for "malicious users of mremap() syscall can gain
priviledges")

> It has been running in production for upwards of 3 weeks doing about 50k 
> checks per week day on average (via a local caching dns) and after 
> filtering out the local networks.
> 
> Regards
> Anthony

Alexander


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