Re: Fw: [cobalt-users] SMTP problems - HELP!

[Theodore Jones <theoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there anything that cobalt's OS relies on Ping for?

~ Theo

Dom Latter wrote:

> flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > hmm, i keep seeing silly admin's disable ping thinking it does something
> > usefull....ok, here's 2 scenerios...
>
> We got stung by a very simple DOS attack using ping.  Friday night
> they started pinging us, and as we were logging every one, some time
> over the weekend /var had filled up.  So we could no longer accept
> incoming mail.
>
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