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Date:  Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:29:12 -0800
From:  "Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc." <kenmarcus (at mark) precisionweb.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:14381] Re: Dovecot/POP3 Flood
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <F9F62441D6374D4FB809B4CB98F54A5A@OfficeKen>
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "User Ernie" <ernie (at mark) info.eis.net.au>
To: <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:02 PM
Subject: [coba-e:14379] Re: Dovecot/POP3 Flood


>I am still having problems with these brute force attacks, the problem 
>seems
> to be that dovecot is spawing too many processes->PAM requests before the
> intrusion detection progam has notices. Is there a way to hard code the
> number of simultaneous running dovecot processes to give time for the
> blocking scripts to respond. Something like 50 dovcot pop3-login processes
> at once should be heaps.
>
> - Ernie.
>
>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 08:14:51PM +0200, Maurice de Laat wrote:
>>
>> > wget http://rfxnetworks.com/apf.php
>>
>> Make that wget http://www.r-fx.ca/downloads/apf-current.tar.gz
>> Sorry for the confusion.
>> -- 
>> Maurice de Laat
>>


Ernie

As far as I know, the standard BFD does not work with Dovecot.



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