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Re:Ask HN: How do you protect your Mailserver from DDoS Atta... by gramakri on Friday August 14, 2020 @03:15AM (#24154790)
Exactly this. If a reboot fixed it, it's probably not ddos
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Re:Ask HN: How do you protect your Mailserver from DDoS Atta... by dvfjsdhgfv on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:26AM (#24158350)
And probably rebooting the whole server wasn't necessary, just restarting the MTA would probably do it. When I was younger and had plenty of time, I'd spend hours or even days diagnosing the root case. These days, I'd just add one line to crontab and moved on.
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