Re: [cobalt-users] HELP! Big Email Problem!

["Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] HELP! Big Email Problem!


> > Hi List,
> >
> > I have a RAQ3i and someone is either trying to relay off it of something
> as the message log is recording thousands of emails every
> > minute of every hour for the past 48 hrs.
> > Mar  7 13:27:50 ns1 sendmail[1466]: NAA01466: ruleset=check_rcpt,
> >arg1=<barronlm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, relay=1Cust14.tnt38.det3.da.uu.net
> 
> Go into the Control Panel, then Email Parameters.
> In the area where you put an address to reject all mail from this domain,
> put in:
> da.uu.net
> 
> Save changes, save changes and so on till you get back out of it.
> You may also want to simply turn off email services for a half hour or so
> until the jerk gets the idea that he can't send any more stuff through your
> machine.
> 
> You may also want to drop him into your hosts.deny file... as root, in
> telnet (or ssh), type:
> /sbin/route add -host da.uu.net reject
> 
> CarrieB
> 
Carrie,
Are you sure that command will append to the hosts.deny file?
I seem to recall that it just adds it to the routing table, and if you
reboot it will be gone.
Gerald