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Re: "RelayFinder" Anyone else seen this? (erols, fnord, oneill may be interested)
From: Brian Pavane <bpavane () liii com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:54:27 -0400 (EDT)
I was hit at bpisles.liii.com, by autumn.news.erols.com, my host is in no way an SMTP server, and actually isn't even running an SMTP. Jun 23 02:54:15 bpisles tcplog: smtp connection attempt from autumn.news.erols.com On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Dan Foster wrote:
Hot Diggety! On a bright and sunny day, Ryan K. Brooks was rumored to have said...Had a new box on the net for all of two hours, and this pops up on in my maillog: Jun 22 22:18:41 x sendmail[509]: WAA00509: SYSERR: putoutmsg (autumn.news.erols.com): error on output channel sending "250 delay=00:01:16, xdelay=00:01:16, mailer=esmtp, relay=luser.oneill.net. [207.96.89.34], stat=Deferred: Operation timed out with luser.oneill.net.Don't know what intentions were, but news.erols.com and oneill.net leads me to believe you probably want to contact Clayton O'Neill at coneill () erols com. Was hit by that, too...the host was id'ed as hmm.colo.erols.net as well as luser.oneill.net. Not too wild about it -- I figure SMTP hosts identified by DNS is fair game, but generally regard any other questionable access as potential abuse cases. hmm.colo.erols.net doesn't exist in the DNS, so I'm not sure offhand whether this was spoofed or not. Clayton, you know anything about this? -Dan
-Brian Pavane -LIII Support Staff
Current thread:
- "RelayFinder" Anyone else seen this? (erols, fnord, oneill may be interested) Ryan K. Brooks (Jun 24)
- Re: "RelayFinder" Anyone else seen this? (erols, fnord, oneill may be interested) Derek Balling (Jun 24)
- Re: "RelayFinder" Anyone else seen this? (erols, fnord, oneill may be interested) Dan Foster (Jun 24)
- Re: "RelayFinder" Anyone else seen this? (erols, fnord, oneill may be interested) Stephen Stuart (Jun 24)
- Re: "RelayFinder" Anyone else seen this? (erols, fnord, oneill may be interested) Brian Pavane (Jun 24)
- Re: "RelayFinder" Anyone else seen this? (erols, fnord, oneill may be interested) Clayton O'Neill (Jun 24)
- Re: "RelayFinder" Anyone else seen this? (erols, fnord, oneill may be interested) Christopher X. Candreva (Jun 29)