Can sasl/sendmail Report IP Of Failed Access?

Waitman Gobble gobble.wa at gmail.com
Tue Jun 4 18:56:47 UTC 2013


On Jun 4, 2013 9:00 AM, "Tim Daneliuk" <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
>
> I am seeing login dictionary attacks on a FreeBSD mail server being
> reported.  Is there a way to determine the IPs that are doing this
> so they can be blocked at the firewall?   auth.log only
> notes the attempted user name, not the IP of origin.
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On Jun 4, 2013 9:00 AM, "Tim Daneliuk" <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
>
> I am seeing login dictionary attacks on a FreeBSD mail server being
> reported.  Is there a way to determine the IPs that are doing this
> so they can be blocked at the firewall?   auth.log only
> notes the attempted user name, not the IP of origin.
> --
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> Tim Daneliuk
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one idea is to run auth on a different service / machine on a non-standard
port, that at least cuts down the noise from "non-targetted" scans.

Waitman Gobble
San Jose California USA


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