Philip Prindeville wrote: > Hmmm.... I was wondering if we might want to call > ioctl(..., SIOCGIFCONF...) followed by SIOCGIFADDR to get the list > of our IP addresses... So we can do some filtering on people claiming > to be us.
http://search.cpan.org/~tpaba/Net-Ifconfig-Wrapper-0.09/ > I.e. if someone connects to me and says "helo 71.36.29.88" then I know > for a fact that they aren't me... That is a very popular test: http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?UseHeloToCatchSpam2 > One other thing I thought about: what about detecting spammers, and > then looking up the CIDR block that their address belongs to, and adding > it to a blacklist automatically in filter_relay()? Too many false-positives. We own a measly 8 IP addresses where our colo box sits. If you block us because someone on our class C was bad, that's unfair. -- David. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang