[rescue] Re: Re: Determining the country of orgin for IP address(es)

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Wed Feb 27 22:17:01 CST 2002


On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:04:22PM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> every once in a while a message gets stuck in our MTA cause it can't run the
> virus checking software on it.  i go in and look at them.  Rich Text
> attatchments.  the record so far is 95MB.  all the reciepients (about 5000
> people) are ALL on dialup.  the sender isn't though, so it never occurs to
> him the pain he is inflicting on these poor people.

Um, you don't have maximum message size restrictions?  Unless you have
utterly PHAT pipes, expect a DoS attack, whether intentional or
unintentional.

./patrick



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