Marc, There is a strategy loosely referred to as "choose your battles well" :-) Let the others bother with their own problems. If you can, hack the server and dump the 500GB - you'll be using resources transferring the 500GB as the other server receives it. Two servers wasting resources because you think you are punishing an offender!
On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 13:43, Marc Roos <m.r...@f1-outsourcing.eu> wrote: > Please do not assume anything other than what is written, it is a > hypothetical situation > > > A. With the fail2ban solution > - you 'solve' that the current ip is not able to access you > - it will continue bothering other servers and admins > - you get the next abuse host to give a try. > > B. With 500GB dump > - the owner of the attacking server (probably hacked) will notice it > will be forced to take action. > > > If abuse clouds are smart (most are) they would notice that attacking my > servers, will result in the loss of abuse nodes, hence they will not > bother me anymore. > > If every one would apply strategy B, the abuse problem would get less. > Don't you agree?? > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Odhiambo Washington > Sent: donderdag 11 april 2019 12:28 > To: Marc Roos > Cc: dovecot > Subject: Re: Mail account brute force / harassment > > > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 13:24, Marc Roos via dovecot > <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote: > > > > > Say for instance you have some one trying to constantly access an > account > > > Has any of you made something creative like this: > > * configure that account to allow to login with any password > * link that account to something like /dev/zero that generates > infinite > amount of messages > (maybe send an archive of virusses?) > * transferring TB's of data to this harassing client. > > I think it would be interesting to be able to do such a thing. > > > > > Instead of being evil, just use fail2ban to address this problem :-) > > -- > > Best regards, > Odhiambo WASHINGTON, > Nairobi,KE > +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 > "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-) > > > -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-)
