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From: Peter N. M. Hansteen <peter@...>
To: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: Spamd sending packets from 127.0.0.1 to the outside?
Date: Monday, December 10, 2007 - 10:42 am

Renaud Allard  writes:


> I just noticed that spamd is trying to send ack packets from 127.0.0.1 to the IP


ACK packets are part of any two-way TCP/IP communication.  Spamd's

mission with respect to blacklisted hosts is to waste spammers' time

by replying slowly.  If you primarily want to blackhole rather than

greylist and tarpit, spamd is not the tool you are looking for.


--

Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team

http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/

"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"

delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
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Spamd sending packets from 127.0.0.1 to the outside?, Renaud Allard, (Mon Dec 10, 10:14 am)
Re: Spamd sending packets from 127.0.0.1 to the outside?, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Mon Dec 10, 10:42 am)
Re: Spamd sending packets from 127.0.0.1 to the outside?, Renaud Allard, (Mon Dec 10, 11:24 am)
Re: Spamd sending packets from 127.0.0.1 to the outside?, Paul de Weerd, (Mon Dec 10, 11:50 am)
Re: Spamd sending packets from 127.0.0.1 to the outside?, Paul de Weerd, (Mon Dec 10, 12:02 pm)
Re: Spamd sending packets from 127.0.0.1 to the outside?, Renaud Allard, (Mon Dec 10, 12:11 pm)
Re: Spamd sending packets from 127.0.0.1 to the outside?, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Mon Dec 10, 11:47 am)