Yeah, I throttle initial connections per IP to something like 15 or 20.
I started doing this after I got hit with a little more than 600
connections/second for a few minutes.
Just a note to those who might not know - but Outlook (Express) and possibly
other MUAs like to connect once per
All,
Is anyone using iptables (recent module), or any other alternatives, to
throttle the number of new imap or pop connections per minute? We have
some applications that like to login every second to pull mail using
imap, so we'd like to protect the entire dovecot server from these
applications.
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All,
Is anyone using iptables (recent module), or any other alternatives
On Nov 19, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Joe Allesi -X (joallesi - Coyote Creek
Consulting at Cisco) wrote:
All,
Is anyone using iptables (recent module), or any other alternatives,
to
throttle the number of new imap or pop connections per minute? We have
some applications that like to login every
