Re: Outbound SMTP

["Jenkins, Matthew" <matthew.jenkins () FAIRMONTSTATE EDU>]

Jeff, what are you using to limit connections?

There have been some good ideas and thoughts kicked around on this
thread today!  Thanks everyone,

Matt

Matthew Jenkins
Network/Server Administrator
Fairmont State University
Visit us online at www.fairmontstate.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Jeff Kell
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 12:06 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Outbound SMTP

Jenkins, Matthew wrote:
> We are currently rate limiting SMTP traffic way down (as low as the 
> Packeteer would allow) for non-servers. 

I should clarify that we rate-limit the connections (exceed "x" 
connections 10 minutes, you get blocked for an hour), not the traffic
rate.

Jeff