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Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Mon Mar 2 09:40:25 UTC 2015


Am 02.03.2015 um 10:33 schrieb Steffen Kaiser:
>> hence RBL's make sense in the core because *in front* of any other
>> protocol specific code
>
> That's TCP wrapper or a firewall, IMHO. (for a file list, not RBL).
> However, there used to be a RBL patch for TCP wrapper and some
> distribution provide other implementations of a TCP wrapper with RBL

TCP wrapper is dying (more and more software in distributions is built 
without tcpwrapper support, more and more upstream packages remove 
support starting with openssh) and given that the author of tcpwrapper 
is the same person which wrote postfix if it would not make sense in the 
mail-daemon itself you can be sure it would not be in postfix

one point is logging - frankly i want rejected mail connections in the 
maillog and not spread over the whole system logs

EADSUP: OpenSSH 6.7 drops tcpwrapper support:
https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-08/msg00345.html

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/tag/tcp-wrappers/

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