Knowledgebase: Features
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Does PerfectMail have any way of defending against a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDOS)?
Posted by David Rutherford on 20 November 2012 10:04 AM
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| Yes. PerfectMail has strategies in place to defend against various types of focused and distributed SMTP based attacks. PerfectMail maintains a database of "known servers" for which it reserves a minimum number of e-mail connections. This number adjusts depending on the number of mail connections received from "known servers". In a DDOS situation "unknown" mail servers and "known" mail servers are each allotted a number of e-mail connections with preference being given to "known" mail servers. This guarantees that server resources are given to "known" mail servers effectively mitigating the effects of a DDOS attack. | |
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