Sendmail-8.11.2 / persistent connections

From: Lindsey Simon (lsimonat_private)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 13:18:43 PDT

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    For the last two days we've been trying to figure out why all our email clients were timing out with
    our mail server. I've since installed postfix and that fixed the problem. Essentially, it seems we
    were attacked by some sort of persistent connection from a few IPs consistently.
    
    This was one:
    
    209.151.233.24 / fix.your.open.relay.or.die.net 
    
    sendmail: ./f6V4kIr13292 fix.your.open.relay.or.die.net.: client DATA status
    
    Our Norton AV gateway makes it appear that we're an open relay even though we're not. But whatever
    was happening was killing our ability to send email and I just wanted to bring this up and see if
    anyone has experienced something similar.
    
    -lindsey
    



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