Virus Sent From My Subnet

Matt hciss at HCIWS.COM
Mon Sep 23 15:56:01 IST 2002


> >Will this be a possible config option in version 4?  This does solve the
> >problem quite nicely.
>
> Is it really worth making an extra config item for it? Why not just do it
> for all the "notices"? It doesn't get sent to users, only sysadmins, so a
> bit of extra info shouldn't do any harm.

I just realized something.  Sendmail does a reverse dns lookup on all
connections.  If the virus originated in any of my IP pool's it will have my
reverse DNS lookup in it.  I can just search for that.

Matt



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