Re: [exim] DOS attack. What to do?

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Author: Eric Kuzniar
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CC: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] DOS attack. What to do?

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>You are probably being hit from a zombie farm that uses *many* IP, but
>relatively fewer forged hostnames and HELO. Sometimes a local BL is handy.
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>Odds are these will be failing rNDS / forward/reverse lookup, forging HELO,
>sending to recipients that do not exist, trying to pipeline when you do not
>offer it, and other rude behaviour.
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    Another common scenario is that these are all bounces and/or 
callouts as a result of his domains being joe jobbed.