[TheForge] Fwd: Re: [QSL-Net] qth.net working?

[Dave Brown]

To all,

The QTH.NET mailman list server has been having severe problems lately. 
Over the past week it has hung up the list for a almost 24 hours three 
times, and when it starts sending email it appears we are losing a large 
number of postings. A number of list postings in the last three days have 
not made it through.

The following was received from Al Waller, owner of qth.net.

>From: "Alan L. Waller" <k3tkj@qsl.net>
>
>We have been hit with a denial of service attack for the last 10 days.
>Directed at mailman lists only. I guess somebody is really mad at the
>system, and is aware of how it all plays as they are coming at us from all
>directions. Below is a minute snippet of the logs showing the frequency of
>the attack. What this does is consume out bandwidth and the real messages
>are delayed or never make it
>
>Al
>
>Nov 13 21:29:00 mailman postfix/smtpd[28948]: reject: RCPT from
>unknown[12.42.72.178]: 554 <ar7030@qth.net>: Recipient address rejected:
>Relay access denied; from=<c_braden@ww4.4positivechange.com>
>to=<ar7030@qth.net>
>Nov 13 21:29:05 mailman postfix/smtpd[28948]: disconnect from
>unknown[12.42.72.178]

<huge snip>

>Nov 13 21:56:45 mailman postfix/smtp[30532]: 7B0BD328221:
>to=<k7jj@arrl.net>, relay=arrl-mx-01.corplink.net[216.37.46.9], delay=44,
>status=bounced (host arrl-mx-01.corplink.net[216.37.46.9] said: 550 5.1.1
><k7jj@arrl.net>... User unknown)
>[root@mailman log]#

Thank you all for your patience.

Dave Brown
List Admin for TheForge