Re: [toaster] remote conncurrency

2004-06-30 Thread Tom Collins
On Jun 30, 2004, at 7:39 AM, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 18:12, Jeff Koch wrote: Hi Jason: Thanks for the help. What exactly does 'tarpit' do? Something with a delay? Yeah, basically, if qmail sees mail coming from the same source (not sure what's considered a source),

Re: [toaster] remote conncurrency

2004-06-30 Thread Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 18:12, Jeff Koch wrote: > Hi Jason: > > Thanks for the help. What exactly does 'tarpit' do? Something with a delay? Yeah, basically, if qmail sees mail coming from the same source (not sure what's considered a source), it will pause for a configurable number of seconds befor

Re: [toaster] remote conncurrency

2004-06-29 Thread Jeff Koch
Hi Jason: Thanks for the help. What exactly does 'tarpit' do? Something with a delay? At 04:47 PM 6/29/2004, you wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 16:35, Jeff Koch wrote: > This seems to be a problem with the outgoing remote concurrency. I'm not > sure how this would be related to a tarpit attack. Howev

Re: [toaster] remote conncurrency

2004-06-29 Thread Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 16:35, Jeff Koch wrote: > This seems to be a problem with the outgoing remote concurrency. I'm not > sure how this would be related to a tarpit attack. However, we have a > standard toaster install - is the tarpit patch automatically turned on? I don't believe it is... You

Re: [toaster] remote conncurrency

2004-06-29 Thread Jeff Koch
This seems to be a problem with the outgoing remote concurrency. I'm not sure how this would be related to a tarpit attack. However, we have a standard toaster install - is the tarpit patch automatically turned on? Also, since we've got the 'big concurrency' patch is there any problem with rais

Re: [toaster] remote conncurrency

2004-06-29 Thread Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 15:14, Jeff Koch wrote: > All of a sudden this weekend the remote concurrency started topping out. We > tried raising it to 30 then to 40 and now it is at 50 but it is still > staying at the peak and users are complaining that their email is being > delayed by a few hours.