Re: [EXIM] EXIM-Deny Connections

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Author: Jeffrey Goldberg
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To: Paul_Yahnig
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] EXIM-Deny Connections
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 Paul_Yahnig@??? wrote:

> Hello all. Is there a setting in Exim to deny connections once it is flodded? I
> am running solaris 2.6 on a ultra 60. i am getting:
> 1999-03-17 10:23:05 Connection from 199.???.??.??? refused: too many connections
>
> Sun says that solaris will not deny connection from too many connections, ie: Syn
> Attack. Does anyone have any ideas?


smtp_accept_max

will limit the number of connections to the daemon, but it doesn't know
about other connections to the host.

-j

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