17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
M C Wong writes:
For those who are IP hackers, the problem is that we're being flooded with SYNs from random IP addresses on our smtp ports. We are getting on average 150 packets
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Can't access to this port be guarded against by a filtering router which is configured to accept *only* a number of trusted MX hosts ?
Sure -- if you only want to accept mail from fifteen machines on earth. If on the other hand your users might get mail from anywhere on earth, your mail ports have to be open to connections from anywhere. .pm