Sunday 08 February 2004 14.45 skrev Eduardo M. Bragatto:
> Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
> > that could only be done in tcpserver by rate limiting connections by IP
> > address, and would also affect legitimate connections made by valid
> > users using proper authentication credentials.  I'd be mighty upset if
> > anyone rate limited my pop3 connections ;)
> >
> > Of course, special provisions could be made, but
>
>       I don't want it at the pop3, I want it on smtpd. Spammers are hammering
> my server, sending messages to lots of domains that I'm hosting. If I
> could set a limit like 5 simultaneously connections for each IP address,
> no one would be able to use all my "slots".

Could pretty easily be done with:

http://www.deserve-it.com/sw/patches/patch-ucspi-tcp-0.88-periplimit

Cheers.

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