Hmmm Maybe I can play with it and turn it into a real tarpit, I am rather
rough when it comes to C programing, let me take a look when I get it. Also
what do you mean by hosts.allow, I have come up to speed on qmail pretty
quickly, but I don't remember any mention of hosts.allow
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John R Levine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 4:51 PM
> To: Russell Nelson
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: two questions about set-up
>
>
> > > Question two. Can someone suggest a way that I can get qmail to do
> > > tarpitting, or at least point me to a good wrapper to do tarpitting??
> >
> > John Levine has such a thing. He's deep in the throes of finishing a
> > book, and I don't know if he kibos, so I'll CC: him just to get his
> > attention.
>
> I have a small patch that sticks sleeps in front of each read call in
> qmail-smtpd. It's not a real tarpit, but it does slow spammers down.
>
> It's controlled by a TARPIT environment variable that I set in
> hosts.allow. Will package it up and send it along.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet
> for Dummies",
> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl,
> Sewer Commissioner
> Finger for PGP key, f'print = 3A 5B D0 3F D9 A0 6A A4 2D AC 1E
> 9E A6 36 A3 47
>
