11 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] Saturation DDoS
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Zenon PanoussisOct 22, 2007 5:50 am 
Enda CronnollyOct 22, 2007 6:25 am 
Leigh S. JonesOct 22, 2007 7:29 am 
Gordon MessmerOct 22, 2007 7:48 am 
Zenon PanoussisOct 22, 2007 8:25 am 
Gordon MessmerOct 22, 2007 9:50 am 
Zenon PanoussisOct 22, 2007 10:34 am 
Gordon MessmerOct 22, 2007 12:48 pm 
Sam VarshavchikOct 22, 2007 3:36 pm 
Zenon PanoussisOct 23, 2007 12:27 am 
DanielOct 23, 2007 11:29 am 
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Subject:Re: [courier-users] Saturation DDoSActions...
From:Gordon Messmer (yiny@eburg.com)
Date:Oct 22, 2007 12:48:40 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Zenon Panoussis wrote:

In this case this feature turns against me and everybody else except the spammer. What is hitting me is more or less innocent servers bouncing spam (not 100% innocent because they shouldn't have accepted that spam in the first place, but misconfigured != malicious). So tarpitting them wastes their resources and mine, especially mine, without achieving any desirable effect, e.g. slowing down the spammer.

I'll risk earning myself an RTFM reply and ask: is there a way to configure tarpit=off?

No, not without modifying the source code, but the resources each connection use on your system are very minimal. Increase the number of connections that you allow.