Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:21:49 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | [OT] Re: Horiffic SPAM |
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Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > >>On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:11:59PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: >>
> Well it seems that fire-walling the SPAM servers is *not* a good idea. > They are persistant, gang up, and will not give up until they are > able to deliver the mail! When I firewall them, my network traffic
According to standards they will give up after 5 days or so.
> ends up being continuous SYN floods as every spam-server in the > country tries to connect. It doesn't do any good to set `ipchains` to > REJECT instead of DENY. They just keep on banging on the door. >
Have you considered teergrubing them instead? That ought to fix the bandwith problem. And it is not so fun for whoever has the spam server either - either disrupting some spammers operation or harassing some server admin into making his box un-abuseable.
Helge Hafting
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