From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 12 1:14:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA5514D88 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 01:14:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 01:14:09 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: , Subject: RE: imrss.org == Internet Mail Relay Services Survey Project Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 01:14:09 -0700 Message-ID: <000001beb4ab$8c0e0950$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <19990612060441.TFHS93999.mta1-rme@wocker> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Probing someone else's machine for a vulnerability or security flaw without their consent is a definite no-no. This is nothing at all like spidering a web site. DS > Anyone been scanned by this project lately? I recently found this in my > logs: > > Jun 12 16:21:21 ns sendmail[45607]: QAA45607: ruleset=check_rcpt, > arg1=, relay=[199.0.22.2], reject=550 > ... Relaying denied > Jun 12 16:21:21 ns sendmail[45607]: QAA45607: lost input channel from > [199.0.22.2] > Jun 12 16:21:21 ns sendmail[45607]: QAA45607: from=, > size=0, class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP, relay=[199.0.22.2] > > So I went looking and found this at http://www.imrss.org/ > > The Internet Mail Relay Services Survey Project is a self-funded > all-volunteer project whose intent is to collect information > regarding so-called Open E-mail Relay Servers on the Internet. > > And not surprisingly this also say this: > > MRSS considers the process of passing a single small message through a > publically available E-mail server as being neither intuitively nor > obviously offensive to the actual owner of that E-mail > server, nor fundamentally different from the process of cataloging a web > site (as currently performed on a daily basis by any number of popular > web search engines). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message