Re: [exim] Blocking a Class C

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Author: Odhiambo Washington
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To: The Doctor
CC: Evgeniy Berdnikov, exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Blocking a Class C
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 11:38 PM The Doctor via Exim-users <
exim-users@???> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 10:47:18PM +0300, Evgeniy Berdnikov via Exim-users
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 12:22:13PM -0700, The Doctor via Exim-users
> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 09:24:19PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington via
> Exim-users wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > >>> host in "5.34.207.0/24"? yes (matched "5.34.207.0/24")
> > > > >>> host in host_reject_connection? yes (matched "+host_rejects")
> > > > LOG: refused connection from [5.34.207.3] (host_reject_connection)
> > > > 554 SMTP service not available
> > > > root@gw:/usr/home/wash #
> > >
> > > Still seeing
> > >
> > > netstat -a | egrep smtp
> > > tcp4       0      0 exploreedmonton..smtps 5.34.207.189.26526
>  SYN_RCVD
> > > tcp4       0      0 comparealbertapo.smtps 5.34.207.190.30872
>  FIN_WAIT_2
> > > tcp4       0      0 204.209.81.148.smtps   5.34.207.114.57546
>  FIN_WAIT_2

> >
> > Rejection with status code 554 requires established TCP connection.
> > Study mainlog to check whether connections are rejected.
> >
> > However, absense of numerous connections in ESTABLISHED state is a hint
> > that rejection works.
> >
> > If you don't want TCP connections, use packet filtering on kernel level
> > instead of Exim's configuration options.
>
> I am surprised that my firewall ACL is not getting this
> in a switch!



I shared config snippets that work.
If you wanted to deal with this at the firewall level, you did not need
Exim to do it!

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