on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:44:00AM +0200, Sebastiaan (sebas@sacred-key.org) wrote: > Hi, > > I have reason to belive that my computer is used as a relay host for > spam. Walking through the logs, I found one ip number which has no ip > name, but it connects the computer every hour or so and sends some mail. > > I want to block this address, but I have not succeeded in configuring the > hosts.deny file correctly. This is what I have: > > hosts.allow: empty > hosts.deny: > ALL: 1.2.3.4 > ALL: PARANOID > > where 1.2.3.4 is the spammers' address. I want to deny him smtp access (or > all access to this machine). > > I tried to do this with my own ip, but I was still able to connect to port > 25. Telnet access was forbidden however. > > I use Postfix as maildaemon. > > Thanks in advance, > Sebastiaan I don't believe you want to be messing around in hosts.allow for this. I'm not specifically familiar with postfix, but suspect there's a fairly straightforward way to disable mail relays. Check your docs. Why do you allow them in the first place? -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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