Perhaps setting 'smtp_receive_timeout' to something lower will get rid
of those stale connects sooner, thus creating some available slots?
This section of the docs may help:
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch14.html#SECID112
FYI, I apologize if this is a duplicate, have had DNS issues all day
today (main DNS host went down, propagation of alternates has been less
than seamless).
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 17:18 +0100, Michael Connors wrote:
> Hi,
> I have an exim mail server with the max number of connections set to 150.
> It has been running fine but over the last week or so, I am getting
> large numbers of established smtp connections to my machine even when
> the mail queue is completely clear.
> Because of this I am ending up dropping connections. I would rather not
> increase the limit because that real problem is the large number of
> connections and not the current limit.
>
> Could this be some sort of attempted dos attack?
> Regards,
>
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> Michael
>
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