On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:23:19AM +1200, Jason Haar wrote: > We are getting HAMMERED with a dictionary attack that is on a scale we > have never experienced before. > > We have recipient verification on our edge servers, so basically it's > all just bouncing off us, but it has been impacting us as we've already > had to up the maximum number of simultaneous SMTP connections 4-fold to > handle the increased load. > > I'm starting to track the IPs, and so far after 30 minutes have found > over 5000 separate IPs - so this Spambot army is pretty big. > > Is it only us, or are others seeing it too? >
I may have a server side solution using spamikaze but first what is the SMTP server software taht you are using? > -- > Cheers > > Jason Haar > Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. > Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 > PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 > -- Member - Liberal International This is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ici [EMAIL PROTECTED] God Queen and country! Beware Anti-Christ rising! New Brunswick kick out the Harper Puppet and VOTE LIBERAL on 18 Sept 2006 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
