Re: News DoS using sendsys

[pat () TRANSARC COM (Pat Barron)]

Personally, I don't think there's much legitimate reason for anyone to
ever send a "sendsys" these days.  Maybe it can be profitably used by
coordinators of some local and regional hierarchies, to get propagation
stats, but I would not think there'd be much else it could legitimately
used for.

With that in mind, I added the following line to my INN "control.ctl"
file, after the first day when I saw 600 or so sendsys requests pop up in
my mailbox:

     sendsys:*:*:drop

There - problem gone.

--Pat.