Greetings. I don't understand some things.
your machine is a mail relay/server, or you haved a host without any firewall between him and the internet? In the first case, you'll should prefer setting greylisting / tarpitting at minimum, feeding a firewall table for blacklisting is a neverending story (plus, there is some real chance blocking real MX relays). and in the second case a basic pf configuration blocking any incoming attempts like: set skip lo0 # skipping any filtering on lo0 ext_iface="your_network_card_connected_to_internet" pass out quick on $ext_iface all block log quick on $ext_iface all should be sufficient. for more information about optimizations, man (5) pf.conf should do the trick. regards. > Message du 29/03/17 22:05 > De : "Chris H" > A : "FreeBSD pf" > Copie à : > Objet : When should I worry about performance tuning? > > OK. My association with FreeBSD has made me a prime > target for every male hormone distributor on the net. > Fact is; I can guarantee ~89 SPAM attempts in under 5 > minutes, after creating a pr on bugzilla. At first I > was angry, and frustrated. But decided to make it a > challenge/contest, and see my way to thwarting their > attacks. Long story short; I think I'm on the right > track; In just over a month, I've managed to trap > just under 3 million (2,961,264) *bonafide* SPAM sources. > I've been honing, and tuning my approach to insure that > there are zero false positives, and at the same time, > make it more, and more efficient. > So now that I'm dropping packets from *so* many IP's > I'm wondering if it's not time to better tune pf(4). > I've never worked pf hard enough to do any more than > create a table, and a few simple rules. But I think I > need to do more. > Here's the bulk of what I'm using now: > > ################################### > set loginterface re0 > set block-policy drop > set fingerprints "/etc/pf.os" > scrub in all > set skip on lo0 > antispoof quick for lo0 > antispoof for re0 inet > > table persist file "/etc/SPAMMERS" > block in log quick on re0 proto tcp from to port {smtp, submission, > pop3, imap, imaps} > ################################### > > Would set optimization be warranted? > Any thoughts, or advice greatly appreciated! > > --Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-pf@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pf > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-pf-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-pf@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pf To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-pf-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"