Re: Blacklisting an IP - outside of Greylist

That will teach me to type from memory. You are correct, sir.  -s is for the 
source and I typed -d which is for the destination.

Dennis

===== Original Message from [email protected] (Greylisting 
Users and Developers Discuss) at 3/28/07 9:26 am
>Dennis,  I'd change the -d to -s on option 2, and then probably select
>option 1 as it is slightly neater - keep the mail stuff in one place.
>
>Just my tuppence...
>Andrew.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected]
>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis
>Wynne
>Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:02 AM
>To: Greylisting Users and Developers Discuss
>Subject: [Greylist-users] Blacklisting an IP - outside of Greylist
>
>We have one IP that is really hitting on us, the blocked count in the
>greylist database shows 32,552 blocks since I blacklisted them.
>
>One message snuck through this morning, they hit us so often that during the
>
>time the daily stop/start of the script was going on the message snuck
>through.
>
>To avoid having to look this number up over and over in the database all day
>
>and have any mail sneak by in case the script is down for any reason, I want
>
>to block this IP at the earliest or best spot (lease overhead for my system)
>
>that I can.
>
>Thoughts:
>
>1) I can put it in the access sendmail "database" with an entry like:
>
>Connect:1.1.1.1           REJECT
>
>
>2) I can add them to the iptables "firewall" with something like this:
>
>-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -d 1.1.1.1 -j REJECT
>
>
>3) I could get them listed on one of the real-time black lists I use - they
>currently are not listed. This seems the least sure and still has high
>overhead, I would think.
>
>
>Any other options?
>
>Thanks!
>Dennis
>
>
>
>
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