Need help!

[D. Hageman]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Jack wrote:
>
> Taking the box offline would take down my mail server.
> I use this yahoo account for kclug, but I get all my
> regular mail through accounts on my mail server. I
> didn't say the box has been compromised, I just want
> advice on blocking these attacks as much as possible.
> But I don't want to bring my box to a crawl to do it.
>

You should consider getting a secondary MX server.  There will be times 
where you just can't avoid having the box be inaccessible.  If you had a 
secondary MX this would be a non-issue.


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