Re: [exim] Exim + grsecurity + ssl = dos

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Author: James R Grinter
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim + grsecurity + ssl = dos

On 31 May 2016, at 18:44, Samuel <liste-exim@???> wrote:
> Last night, Exim stoped working for few seconds (no response) and I see a strange things in my logs :


Exhaustion of your servers' entropy pool, perhaps? That kind of thing would prevent the acceptance of a new connection (SSL negotiation, smtp greeting etc), if that's what you mean by "no response".

Probably triggered by whoever/whatever was doing that "scanning": as Renaud Allard has pointed out it does look like the likely culprit, rather than a merely a victim of the problem.