Re: IBM Firewall Problem.

[Drew <simonis () myself com>]

Ramesh Gaikwad wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am using IBM Enet Firewall. Suddenly I found that my
> firewall is making connections to the other SMTP
> servers(on the internet) on the port 25.Afer some time
> I came to know that my firewall is sending spam mails
> to those servers. I am not able to understand why my
> firewall is making connections on it's own??.
>
> I suspect there might be some trojen or something like
> that may be in the firewall which is making the
> connections on port 25 of the SMTP servers on the
> internet. Can somebody put some focus into it.


I'd first suspect an open SMTP relay.  Try a telnet to your
firewall's outside IP on port 25, and see if it is responsive.
Its not all that uncommon to find misconfigured systems to this 
end.
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