[Gambas-user] List status (fwd)

[Ron Onstenk]

On Monday 14 August 2006 17:12, Christopher Brian Jack wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Christopher Brian Jack wrote:
> 
> This is off topic but on the topic of spam have any brave souls found a
> way to make a DB-driven ipchain setup?  It's not easily done to make a
> sendmail rejected-servers list to also act as stealthed-port 25 rules in
> any ipfw rule file that I know of.  I frequently get DOS attempts by spam
> scripts that run scripts that try to attack my machine with 1000+ rejected
> mail server exchanges at one time (and such poorly written code rarely
> checks for failed results and to take them off the send list - if I
> stealthed it then their systems would be waiting minutes-per-attempt and
> would most likely exhaust available outbound connections thus not being
> able to spam anyone else while waiting for timeouts).
> 
> PS: the rule file allows for 65k or so entries.  My *local* blacklist (let
> alone sorbs or spamhaus) is getting sizeable itself.
> 
> Are there other approaches to this problem?  Considerable bandwidth goes
> to talking to spammers even if it is to refusse any attempt by their IP
> number to send mail to my server.
> 
> I'm sure I'm not the only one that has this problem as a renter of email
> and http/htps/db services for people needing an affordable internet "pad"
> where they can build a site.
> 

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> > Hi Spambots, my email address is sputnik at ...1334...

Removing this can help ??? :) :)

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> 
> .=================================================.
> |  Christopher BRIAN Jack aka "Gau of the Veldt"  |
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> Hi Spambots, my email address is sputnik at ...1334...
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May be forward request to there ISP using your box as router
and fake that your IP is on the ISP box of the spammer.
Using Cisco router between WAN/LAN I had on loan :)

I did it for my network once and was asked what was happening.
They aborted the spammer from there network :)

 
Ron

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