[Mimedefang] OT: sendmail limit connections

[John]

At 12:34 PM 2/23/2005, you wrote:
>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.

No, you set defaults to rate all ip's and then except the known good ones 
from your own network in the access db


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