I have obtained a list (quite long) of domains used by known spammers.. (send a single reply to me only and I will send a URL where this can be obtained if you're interested) I want to alias each of these in /etc/hosts and point them to my loopback, (127.0.0.1) so return traffic goes nowhere. Does this introduce any means for DOS attacks that aren't already present in a typical mail/web server? I don't want to bog down iptables anymore than I already have. (I have tons of explicit single-IP blocks to include nearly every network originating in china, russia, and india) I've been doing heavy solaris stuff for the past 3 years and I haven't kept up with Linux as well as I would have liked to. Currently we are running RHEL 4. Thanks for any info. /cc -- Chuck Carson - Sr. Software Engineer Galileo Educational Solutions -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list