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anvil - Unix, Linux Command
NAME
anvil - Postfix session count and request rate controlSYNOPSIS
anvil [generic Postfix daemon options] |
DESCRIPTION
The Postfix anvil(8) server maintains statistics about client connection counts or client request rates. This information can be used to defend against clients that hammer a server with either too many simultaneous sessions, or with too many successive requests within a configurable time interval. This server is designed to run under control by the Postfix master(8) server.In the following text, ident specifies a (service, client) combination. The exact syntax of that information is application-dependent; the anvil(8) server does not care.
CONNECTION COUNT/RATE CONTROL
request=connect
ident=string
The anvil(8) server answers with the number of simultaneous connections and the number of connections per unit time for the (service, client) combination specified with ident:
status=0
count=number
rate=number
To register a disconnect event send the following request to the anvil(8) server:
request=disconnect
ident=string
The anvil(8) server replies with:
status=0
MESSAGE RATE CONTROL
request=message
ident=string
The anvil(8) server answers with the number of message delivery requests per unit time for the (service, client) combination specified with ident:
status=0
rate=number
RECIPIENT RATE CONTROL
request=recipient
ident=string
The anvil(8) server answers with the number of recipient addresses per unit time for the (service, client) combination specified with ident:
status=0
rate=number
TLS SESSION NEGOTIATION RATE CONTROL
To register a request for a new (i.e. not cached) TLS session send the following request to the anvil(8) server:
request=newtls
ident=string
The anvil(8) server answers with the number of new TLS session requests per unit time for the (service, client) combination specified with ident:
status=0
rate=number
To retrieve new TLS session request rate information without updating the counter information, send:
request=newtls_report
ident=string
The anvil(8) server answers with the number of new TLS session requests per unit time for the (service, client) combination specified with ident:
status=0
rate=number
SECURITY
The anvil(8) server maintains an in-memory table with information about recent clients requests. No persistent state is kept because standard system library routines are not sufficiently robust for update-intensive applications.
Although the in-memory state is kept only temporarily, this may require a lot of memory on systems that handle connections from many remote clients. To reduce memory usage, reduce the time unit over which state is kept.
DIAGNOSTICS
Problems and transactions are logged to syslogd(8).Upon exit, and every anvil_status_update_time seconds, the server logs the maximal count and rate values measured, together with (service, client) information and the time of day associated with those events. In order to avoid unnecessary overhead, no measurements are done for activity that isn’t concurrency limited or rate limited.
BUGS
Systems behind network address translating routers or proxies appear to have the same client address and can run into connection count and/or rate limits falsely.In this preliminary implementation, a count (or rate) limited server can have only one remote client at a time. If a server reports multiple simultaneous clients, all but the last reported client are ignored.
The anvil(8) server automatically discards client request information after it expires. To prevent the anvil(8) server from discarding client request rate information too early or too late, a rate limited service should always register connect/disconnect events even when it does not explicitly limit them.
CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
The text below provides only a parameter summary. See postconf(5) for more details including examples.
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| anvil_rate_time_unit (60s) | The time unit over which client connection rates and other rates are calculated. |
| anvil_status_update_time (600s) | How frequently the anvil(8) connection and rate limiting server logs peak usage information. |
| config_directory (see ’postconf -d’ output) | The default location of the Postfix main.cf and master.cf configuration files. |
| daemon_timeout (18000s) | How much time a Postfix daemon process may take to handle a request before it is terminated by a built-in watchdog timer. |
| ipc_timeout (3600s) | The time limit for sending or receiving information over an internal communication channel. |
| max_idle (100s) | The maximum amount of time that an idle Postfix daemon process waits for the next service request before exiting. |
| max_use (100) | The maximal number of connection requests before a Postfix daemon process terminates. |
| process_id (read-only) | The process ID of a Postfix command or daemon process. |
| process_name (read-only) | The process name of a Postfix command or daemon process. |
| syslog_facility (mail) | The syslog facility of Postfix logging. |
| syslog_name (postfix) | The mail system name that is prepended to the process name in syslog records, so that "smtpd" becomes, for example, "postfix/smtpd". |
SEE ALSO
smtpd(8), Postfix SMTP server postconf(5), configuration parameters master(5), generic daemon options |
README FILES
TUNING_README, performance tuning |
LICENSE
HISTORY
AUTHOR(S)
Wietse Venema IBM T.J. Watson Research P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA |
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