[Mimedefang] OT: sendmail limit connections

[Arthur Corliss]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, David F. Skoll wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Arthur Corliss wrote:
>
> > I haven't read the cf docs in some time.  I assume you're not
> > referring to the global confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE?
>
> Nope.  In 8.13, you can throttle by IP address or network.

>From what you're saying, then, that would only work for him if he knows the
IP/networks he's getting hit by ahead of time.  It doesn't sound like it would
prevent rate-limit connections from *any* IP address.  For that you'd really
need to keep track of simultaneous connects per IP.

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