Archive for the 'postfix' category

postfix being DDoS’ed

Last night i had a pleasure of seeing nagios scream about one of my mail servers load. When i ssh’ed to the box the load was at 104, ouch. A quick tail -f /var/log/messages showed me the problem – i’m being DDoS’ed. My screen couldn’t handle all that output – ~500 connections /s, which makes [...]

The Book of Postfix: State-of-the-art Message Transport

Today I have finished reading The Book of Postfix – State-of-the-Art Message Transport by Ralf Hildebrandt and Patric Koetter. It took me almost a month to read it, the book has 496 pages, and i was reading it while going to work and back home. I could say that i am more than average postfix [...]

Books – Absolute FreeBSD and The Book of PF

Ah, at last, on Wednesday i’ve received two books. I’ve helped out Kyle Keith with his postfix and amavisd problem and he sent me those books as a gift. Brand new books from amazon! The Book of PF Absolute FreeBSD Thanks again Kyle!!!