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Date:      Fri, 05 May 2000 00:37:38 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I got spammed from my localhost.. 
Message-ID:  <200005050637.AAA46998@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 May 2000 23:30:12 EDT." <39124044.EAB72303@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> 
References:  <39124044.EAB72303@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>  

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In message <39124044.EAB72303@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Jim Durham writes:
: I found that someone has been relaying through my sendmail all day
: long. He is appearing as "localhost" which is an allowable address
: to relay in my access database for sendmail.

Without a header, it is impossible to know if this is a localhost or a
localhost.  There are differences :-).  He might have is IP address
setup to return localhost for queries to it (reverse dns).

Help us out and send us at least one header.

Warner


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