This is one condition where the SelectServer really shines, as I have it providing trans-connection notes() just for this purpose (write me if you'd like a copy of the patch).
I guess you could do the same under tcpserver with POSIX (not SYSV) shared memory, but it'd be significantly more complex. Note that there is at least one brand of spamware out there that will serially open connections from different proxies in order to avoid this kind of retaliation, but I have no solution for that yet. On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:20:57PM -0500, Guillaume Filion wrote: > Tim Meadowcroft wrote: > >I started off thinking that I'd suggest adding basic tar-pitting > >(http://www.gordano.com/kb.htm?q=1112) to selected plugins[...] > > About tarpitting. It seems to me that any half technical spammer will > use a multi threaded program that opens thousands of simultaneous SMTP > connections. A tar pit would only stall one of those connections, using > a few KB of RAM. Hundreds of tar pits would only slow the spammer by a > fraction of a percent. > > Am I missing something? Are you guys all wasting you time doing tar-pits? 8) > > Cheers, > GFK's > -- Au PGP Key ID: 0x385B44CB Fingerprint: 9E9E B116 DB2C D734 C090 E72F 43A0 95C4 385B 44CB "Maximus vero fugiens a quodam Urso, milite Romano, interemptus est" - Getica 235
