[Mimedefang] DoS??

[Jan Pieter Cornet]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 03:21:02PM -0400, WBrown at e1b.org wrote:
> Thanks for everyone's input on this problem.  It turned out that they WAN 
> folks added a throttle on the firewall between the spam filters and the 
> DNS servers to limit queries to 100 per second.  Any additional requests 
> were just dropped, causing the IP stack to bog down. 

Maybe WAN folks have difficulty communicating with people that are too
nearby? :)

Anyway.. helpful hint: rsync or otherwise mirror your whitelists to a
local nameserver as much as possible, if you handle more than a decent
amount of email. And run a caching nameserver on every mailserver.

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