From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't block pop3 attack
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:57:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910232257.09736.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910240249.42991.robin.atwood@attglobal.net>
On Friday 23 October 2009 21:49:42 Robin Atwood wrote:
> My syslog is showing zillions of messages:
>
> Oct 24 02:25:58 opal xinetd[8054]: START: pop-3 pid=16534
> from=61.134.64.199 Oct 24 02:25:59 opal xinetd[16534]: warning:
> /etc/hosts.allow, line 7: can't verify hostname:
> gethostbyname(199.64.134.61.broad.gs.dynamic.163data.com.cn) failed
> Oct 24 02:26:09 opal xinetd[8054]: EXIT: pop-3 status=0 pid=16534
> duration=11(sec)
>
> I run denyhosts but don't trap pop3 messages so I manually added the IP
> address to /etc/hosts.deny and..., it made absolutely no difference. I run
> qpopper which is compiled with xinetd support and xinetd uses tcpd, so I
> assumed the address would be blocked. Apparently not so. Any ideas?
You have allow ALL ALL early in hosts.allow, or
you have allow pop3 all earlier in hosts.allow
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-23 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-23 19:49 [gentoo-user] Can't block pop3 attack Robin Atwood
2009-10-23 20:57 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-10-24 9:39 ` Robin Atwood
2009-10-24 23:02 ` kashani
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