Email issues, relay failure
Bender, Chris
chris_bender at cellularatsea.com
Mon Feb 27 17:00:46 UTC 2012
How would I whitelist SMTP speakers?
I am thinking it would be ok to reload the rules, would that clear the
issue with SMTP users for now?
Whats the harm?
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Radel [mailto:jon at radel.com]
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 11:58 AM
To: Bender, Chris
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Email issues, relay failure
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....
--
--Jon Radel
jon at radel.com
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