On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Angus McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sep 1, 2012, at 11:17 AM, J.R. Lillard <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a client that uses spamdyke but I am new to it. I've read > through the documentation so I am vaguely familiar with it now. They have > been under a DDOS attack for about a month now. It's not enough to bring > their servers down. Basically it's a bunch of SMTP traffic attempting to > send spam. Spamdyke has been doing a great job of blocking the connections > usually with the DENIED_RDNS_MISSING error. The problem is this attack has > been eating up a lot of their bandwidth. As a temporary measure their ISP > has asked them to just drop the invalid connections instead of issuing the > appropriate SMTP response codes. Is this something spamdyke can be > configured to do? I did not see anything obvious in the documentation. > > Are the spammers attempting to deliver spam to their server, or to relay > spam through it? > The messages that are failing are actually being targeted to domains they host. -- J.R. Lillard System / Network Admin Web Programmer Hyphen Communications
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