At 12:20 +0000 2/21/2003, Francisco Azinsan wrote:
>and hundreds of messages are being queued up on my relay server, because
>the final server is refusing them. I'd consider this a denial of
>service, because already the input queue has filled up the diskspace and
>prevented further (valid) messages being accepted on the relay server.
You've gotten good answers to your question. I just wanted to add that if
mere "hundreds" of pending messages fill up the disk space available for
queuing on the relay machine, you have a system design issue, which may
become a problem if your final destination machine is down for a while.
--John
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John Baxter jwblist@??? Port Ludlow, WA, USA
