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sendmail.net: Denial of Service: Fortify Your System

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“The recent distributed denial of service attacks that brought
giants like Yahoo and eBay crashing to earth were aimed at Web
servers, not mail servers. But at the most basic level, DoS attacks
target the TCP/IP stack and not a particular application.”

“While sendmail isn’t particularly vulnerable to such
attacks, there are things you can do to fortify your system against
them.”

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