[7762] in bugtraq
Re: News DoS using sendsys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Barron)
Wed Aug 26 20:22:58 1998
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:32:35 -0400
Reply-To: Pat Barron <pat@TRANSARC.COM>
From: Pat Barron <pat@TRANSARC.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <13795.55895.155103.975354@hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Personally, I don't think there's much legitimate reason for anyone to
ever send a "sendsys" these days. Maybe it can be profitably used by
coordinators of some local and regional hierarchies, to get propagation
stats, but I would not think there'd be much else it could legitimately
used for.
With that in mind, I added the following line to my INN "control.ctl"
file, after the first day when I saw 600 or so sendsys requests pop up in
my mailbox:
sendsys:*:*:drop
There - problem gone.
--Pat.
