Dictionary Attacks

[DAve]

I spoke to soon last week. Staring Friday we came under a heavy old 
fashioned dictionary attack. Each day from noon until 4pm EDT.

The IPs are so widely scattered it seems it would do no good to track 
them. Right now milter-grey is consuming over 50% of my CPUs. If it 
follows the same course as the prior days, about the time the attack on 
one server starts to ease up it will increase on the next server.

Milter-ahead is dealing with the connections that return. It could turn 
into a DOS with a few thousand more connections. Funny but there are so 
many connections for non-existant accounts that my load has fallen 
nearly to the floor. There is no traffic for MailScanner to operate on, 
the server is so dang busy telling zombies to go away.

There has to be a better way to make a living than this 8^(

DAve

-- 
Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a
logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos
for other non-international holidays, but nothing for
Veterans?

Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible.