On Saturday 24 October 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 23 October 2009 21:49:42 Robin Atwood wrote: > > My syslog is showing zillions of messages: > > > > Oct 24 02:25:58 opal xinetd[8054]: START: pop-3 pid=16534 > > from=61.134.64.199 Oct 24 02:25:59 opal xinetd[16534]: warning: > > /etc/hosts.allow, line 7: can't verify hostname: > > gethostbyname(199.64.134.61.broad.gs.dynamic.163data.com.cn) failed > > Oct 24 02:26:09 opal xinetd[8054]: EXIT: pop-3 status=0 pid=16534 > > duration=11(sec) > > > > I run denyhosts but don't trap pop3 messages so I manually added the IP > > address to /etc/hosts.deny and..., it made absolutely no difference. I > > run qpopper which is compiled with xinetd support and xinetd uses tcpd, > > so I assumed the address would be blocked. Apparently not so. Any ideas? > > You have allow ALL ALL early in hosts.allow, or > you have allow pop3 all earlier in hosts.allow The second! I had forgotten about that. The trouble I set it up that way so I could pick up email from arbitrary locations while travelling. It seems the price of that is allowing idiots to spam your logs.
Thanks for the pointer. -Robin -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ----------------------------------------------------------------------