On Thursday 13 March 2008 09:49:27 am will trillich wrote: > hey debianistas, long time no chat! debian cruises along rock solid so > nicely... :) You're always welcome to pipe up when you see a topic you know about, too. :o) > but recently we're seeing a TON of these -- > > 2008-03-13 10:32:36 Connection from [67.55.80.182] refused: too many > connections 2008-03-13 10:32:37 Connection from [75.146.102.69] refused: > too many connections > 2008-03-13 10:32:37 Connection from [201.34.170.231] refused: too many > connections > 2008-03-13 10:32:38 Connection from [92.49.136.189] refused: too many > connectionsroot > > and there's NEVER a moment where we don't have 25+ connections active. > this is for a small office in town, so my guess is that most of this > traffic is unsolicited. we're using VEXIM so the config is nonstandard > -- for greylisting we had to 'greylistd-setup-exim4 add exim4.conf > acl_check_rcpt') > > anybody here come up with a clever approach on how to handle this? Are you already using greylisting? If not, the easiest way to set this up is to install the greylistd package and follow the easy instructions in /usr/share/doc/greylistd. The whole process should take download time+5 minutes. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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