Author: W B Hacker Date: To: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] Connection age feature?
Graeme Fowler wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 09:02 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
>> Is there a variable that returns the number of seconds the connection
>> has been open?
>
> No.
>
> However in the connect ACL you could set a connection variable to hold
> the value of $tod_epoch (or one of the variants) and then check against
> that when the connection is closed.
Elegant. And nothing new required.
>
> Note that this is unlikely to be reliable, because all manner of things
> could cause the connection to be open for a long time - and at least 50%
> of those reasons are at your end.
>
> Graeme
>
Perhaps far more than 50%.
Nothing would surprise me w/r zombots, BUT .. I suspect that most run as fast as
they can, ergo what Marc *might* be seeing as an apparent 'tactic' of slowing
down a session could just be that some of the WinBoxen victimized might have
seriously dodgy resources - eg: links with high packet loss rates and/or dial-up
lines.... even a box so overloaded with other infections and 'applications' that
it is hard-pressed to keep up appearances smtp-wise.
