On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:49:55 +0200 Tony Earnshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Luis Hernán Otegui wrote:
> 
> > Hi, folks, between yesterday and today I've been suffering DOS attacks 
> > using messages like the one I've attached.
> > Many times I've received messages of such this style, but they were 
> > merely "decoys" sent by the spammers to see if the destination address 
> > was real and working. But since yesterday, the number of this messages 
> > scaled to 300 and up an hour!
> 
> Don't know what alternativagratis.com has to do with you (perhaps it's 
> your true love with a sense of humor), but if you don't normally have 
> anything to do with it:
> 
> In local.cf:
> 
> header ALTERNATIVAGRATIS  Received =~ /\.alternativagratis\.com/
> describe ALTERNATIVAGRATIS My girl friend with the sense of humor
> score ALTERNATIVAGRATIS   100
> 
> On the other hand, it could be that it comes from different sources 
> (Received) the whole time. Then the above is useless.

Otherwise, consider handling it further upstream:

ipchains -A input -i eth0 -s 64.116.231.0/24 -j DENY -l

iptables or ipfw equivalents shouldn't be too hard to derive; you may
want to change DENY to REJECT.

See also http://openrbl.org/ip/64/116/231/110.htm

-- Bob


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