On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 14:26:11 +0000, Paul Havinden
<paul.havinden@???> wrote:
>>On 03.07.2015 11:58, Sujit Acharyya-choudhury wrote:
>>> We have seen recently two DoS attacks on our mail gateways, but the
>>> machines and Exim coped well. Our network administrator suggested to
>>> block ping, but from my previous experience elsewhere it cause some
>>> problem - I cannot recall exactly what. Any thoughts on this. I know it is Out of Topic.
>>You mentioned that you suspected DOS attack on your mail gateway previously but never provided any >details. I suspected some major misconfiguration on your side, like running an open relay or a policy of >accept-then-bounce, which would be very serious issues that have to be solved.
>
>>I you don't want to disclose any details on this list, you should consider hiring external consulting.
>
>We block pings to out mail servers and it's doesn’t appear to cause any issues.
And what does it help?
Greetings
Marc
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