From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 07:40:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE7DE37B401 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 07:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BC943FA3 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 07:40:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.honeypot.net.strauser.com (kirk@pooh.honeypot.net [10.0.5.128]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4TEe2DY013652 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 09:40:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030529085433.017db528@mail.servplex.com> From: Kirk Strauser Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 09:40:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030529085433.017db528@mail.servplex.com> (Peter Elsner's message of "Thu, 29 May 2003 08:57:10 -0500") Message-ID: <87r86hx1dp.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Subject: Re: Spammers forged my address - help unbury me from bounces? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 14:40:06 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 2003-05-29T13:57:10Z, Peter Elsner writes: > This sounds like a dictionary attack. They simply put your domain in and > run through hundreds of names and prepend it to your domain. One or more > is bound to go through... I think you misread it a bit. They were sending out hundreds of thousands of emails to *other* mailservers with forged headers like: From: Michelle@honeypot.net The problem wasn't that they were sending all of the messages to *me*; I would've shut that down in a heartbeat. The real issue was that the all of the addresses they tried to send to that weren't reachable bounced, and since my domain was in the From: line, I was being deluged with tens of thousands of bounce messages from thousands of MXes around the world. Now I have thousands of lines in my maillog like: May 29 09:38:04 kanga sm-mta[13551]: h4TEc2DY013551: ruleset=3Dcheck_rc= pt, arg1=3D, relay=3Dns2.computerland.pl [62.89.69.3= ], reject=3D550 5.0.0 ... This account was spoofed b= y some jackass spammer.It doesn't exist. May 29 09:38:04 kanga sm-mta[13551]: h4TEc2DY013551: from=3D<>, size=3D= 3804, class=3D0, nrcpts=3D0, proto=3DESMTP, daemon=3DMTA, relay=3Dns2.compu= terland.pl [62.89.69.3] May 29 09:38:05 kanga sm-mta[13551]: h4TEc2DZ013551: ruleset=3Dcheck_rc= pt, arg1=3D, relay=3Dns2.computerland.pl [62.89.69.3= ], reject=3D550 5.0.0 ... This account was spoofed b= y some jackass spammer.It doesn't exist. May 29 09:38:05 kanga sm-mta[13551]: h4TEc2DZ013551: from=3D<>, size=3D= 3804, class=3D0, nrcpts=3D0, proto=3DESMTP, daemon=3DMTA, relay=3Dns2.compu= terland.pl [62.89.69.3] May 29 09:38:14 kanga sm-mta[13559]: h4TEcDDY013559: ruleset=3Dcheck_rc= pt, arg1=3D, relay=3Ddemrel02.henkel.de [193.96.101.29],= reject=3D550 5.0.0 ... This account was spoofed by some= jackass spammer.It doesn't exist. May 29 09:38:14 kanga sm-mta[13559]: h4TEcDDY013559: from=3D<>, size=3D= 4096, class=3D0, nrcpts=3D0, proto=3DESMTP, daemon=3DMTA, relay=3Ddemrel02.= henkel.de [193.96.101.29] but at least I'm not spending my disk or bandwidth to process those bounce messages - I only have a waste a single TCP connection. =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+1hvC5sRg+Y0CpvERAsbjAKCg5QoO8xJ0te3bjbZHd6xV4mGeRQCfdQgh wvOfe4W8ZpqosOAHDOdeulI= =//aB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--