At 07:03 PM 11/20/2008, you wrote:
on 11-20-2008 3:31 PM Kai Schaetzl spake the following:
> Chris Heiner wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:43:44 -0800:
>
>> I get complaints about "the servers asking for username and password".
>
> from your users or what? Of course, they may complain. A big dictionary
> attack can take almost all the bandwidth for some time or leave a backlog
> of dovecot instances.
> Please, as I understand you are a server adminstrator for quite a few
> machines, correct? Yet, you are answering in a way as if you just brought
> your first server online.
>
> Btw, it's a *SYN* flood, not a SYD flood and that won't change even if you
> repeat it again and again.
>
> I
>> started test@ accounts all many servers to try and track it down.
>
> Pardon, you did what?
>
>> I have tried restarting POP and SMTP in the past
>
> You may want to kill all dovecot instances, in case you *are* running
> dovecot (if not, then of what you use, but I know that dovecot likes to
> hang in this way if hammered). Just restarting it may not kill the backlog
> of hanging connections. A "ps ax|grep login" would help to see if
> instances are still running.
> Restarting SMTP: again, this has nothing to do with SMTP!
>
> Kai
>
CentOS 4 comes with a very OLD version of dovecot.
If you are using dovecot, you can get a much newer version at atrpms.net.
The upgrade might be all you need to fix it.
Watch out for this gotcha! The Dovecot version 1.0.x that comes with
CentOS 5.x is much better and I run it and would recommend it, but
the configs for 0.99.x (Came with CentOS 4.x) are incompatible with
the previous version.
Cheers,
Glenn
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