Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 08:11:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: kpielorz@tdx.co.uk (Karl Pielorz) Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMTP Relay probing - Should I follow up - advice? Message-ID: <199805251511.IAA02882@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <35695091.FE0ACF50@tdx.co.uk> from Karl Pielorz at "May 25, 98 12:05:53 pm"
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Karl Pielorz wrote: > Hi All, > > This isn't strictly FreeBSD relates, but it is very ISP related... > > I've just checked through my morning security logs, and suprise, suprise our > entire address space was scanned again lastnight for SMTP relays... Theres > loads of firewall logs for SMTP connects to machines we don't allow SMTP to, > and on the machines we do allow SMTP to - in the logs are loads of sendmail > catches for 'Relaying Unavailable' (the message we send to people trying to > relay)... > > My question is - I have the IP address these came from, they are a Spamming > Company by the look of it, and to be honest I'm sick of this sort of > thing... > > Is it worth me mailing the people? - Or should I just be grateful we weren't > used as a relay and let them be? > > I'm just annoyed a company that obviously has set out to specialise in > spam/electronic mailing lists doesn't even use it's own servers to send the > damned stuff out... why dont you tell su where the scans came from we can all block connects from that range of ip addresses, if it proves to be a spammers dedicated ip address range jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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