Email issues, relay failure

[Jon Radel]

On 2/27/12 11:45 AM, Bender, Chris wrote:

> I was thinking about just reloading the pf.conf but I have never worked
> with pf so
> I am worried other things might break. My thought was by doing that the
> Adaptive part of the pfctl would be restarted?

Any pf.conf file I've ever seen does something sensible  after reload. 
I suspect one could write something perverse that blows up on restart, 
but that would making rebooting the machine problematic....

>
> Does that make sense would reloading the rules wash the adaptive
> behavior away or
> Would all that still be in some sort of bruteforce file to protect the
> firewall?

pf can load data from files when it starts or just manage things in a 
fashion that is transient upon restart.  Hard to say what's happening in 
your case w/o a clue as to what's in pf.conf.

I'd suggest that you at the very least whitelist internal SMTP speakers 
that you expect to get e-mail from on a regular basis, even if you do 
throttling of SMTP connections in general.  Much less messy....

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--Jon Radel
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