Re: [Sheflug] Re: Mail server

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] richlowe.demon.co.uk>]

* Barrie Bremner (baz [at] barriebremner.com) wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Just to throw in my usual plug of QMail :-)
> 
> Seriously though, I'd look to run QMail or Postfix over Sendmail
> anyday - even if it's just a small rig for personal use.
> 
> Certainly substantially less known holes in those two systems than
> Sendmail!
> 
> Squid is a doddle to setup, especially if you're installing RPMs or
> .debs
> 
> Firewall wise, paranoid is the name of the game. Deny everything, and
> go from there.
> 
> Whoever it was that mentioned having problems with lots of pings and
> DNS querys being listed in the IPtables logs, I believe it is quite
> easy to have a limit rule before a log target to prevent log flooding
> - see netfilter.samba.org.
> 


It was me, it is, and I have :-)
I don't mind having logs full of the stuff, It means I know that it's
happening, (although I must admit syslog printing "last message repeated
X times" like it does for other things, would be better... (except it
can't because parts of the information logged, are different, but hell,
I can dream..) :) ).

It is handy to watch my connection scream at me though.
even 70 pings, in a few seconds, hurts on a modem..

(and nothing gets your attention like a log scrolling upward on your
desktop very quickly) :)

-- 
[ Richard Lowe - richlowe - richlowe [at] richlowe.demon.co.uk ]
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