Bot?

2011-01-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
that server. Nonetheless, they claim I must have a bot and the mail is not passing through my own SMTP. And I suspect little traffic is needed for the alleged bursts. They have no envelope info. Can someone advise on what port(s) are available for bot detection and/or prevention? In all my years

Re: Bot?

2011-01-05 Thread Jerry Bell
It's unlikely that the bot would relay outbound spam through your MTA - that would be inconvenient, slow and raise some suspicion. If the provider is right, you most likely have a bit of code running on the server that is directly connecting to external mail servers. There could be reasons

Re: Bot?

2011-01-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
including SSH, SMTP and mail queue size all monitored by Nagios and have had no alerts from that server. Nonetheless, they claim I must have a bot and the mail is not passing through my own SMTP. And I suspect little traffic is needed for the alleged bursts. They have no envelope info. Can

Re: Bot?

2011-01-05 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 5 January 2011 10:47, Jerry Bell je...@nrdx.com wrote: There could be reasons you aren't seeing a spike, such as you're only looking at traffic processed by the MTA, or it simply doesn't show as a material increase on a graph of traffic on the network interface if the server is busy.

Re: Bot?

2011-01-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Wilcox kevin.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 January 2011 10:47, Jerry Bell je...@nrdx.com wrote: There could be reasons you aren't seeing a spike, such as you're only looking at traffic processed by the MTA, or it simply doesn't show as a material increase

Re: Bot?

2011-01-05 Thread Ryan Coleman
I agree on this point. That said, I once thought my employer's server was hacked and I ran local utilities and dug through months of logs only to discover that an install of either phpBB or phpMyAdmin had a slice of bad code that allowed someone to install software remotely and run its own p2p

Re: Bot?

2011-01-05 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 5 January 2011 13:25, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Wilcox kevin.wil...@gmail.com wrote: To really see what your machine is doing, consider taking a look at the network flows. pfflowd, netflowd, ipaudit and a host of others can get you flow data

Re: Bot? / pf question

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Moellering
On 05-Jan-11 1:44 PM, Kevin Wilcox wrote: On 5 January 2011 13:25, David Brodbeckg...@gull.us wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Wilcoxkevin.wil...@gmail.com wrote: To really see what your machine is doing, consider taking a look at the network flows. pfflowd, netflowd, ipaudit

Re: Bot? / pf question

2011-01-05 Thread Ryan Coleman
Yes and no. You want to leave ftp open, too, just in case for port upgrading/downloading, plus you would want to do monitoring across the wire (Nagios or something, maybe?). You could, though, do a dual-NIC setup and have one be a private network LAN for the servers if you aren't already

Re: Bot? / pf question

2011-01-05 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Mark Moellering m...@msen.com wrote: That's an excellent point. A span port from the upstream switch/router Since I am going to be setting up a mail server sometime next week and have to keep things like this in mind; would it make sense to run pf and block

gtn bot ?

2007-10-18 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Checking my mrtg and trafshow this morning I seem to have an ircd bot running on one of my servers. Does anyone know where I might find some info on 'gtn'?? ps -ax: 62067 1 www Wed Oct 17 20:49:47 2007 gtn (perl5.8.8)35990 1 www Wed Oct 17 18:15:59 2007

Re: gtn bot ?

2007-10-18 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I missed one to. I have never seen this process befor, any ideas? 6313 1 Mon Oct 15 19:34:39 2007 0:02.71 [prox] - Original Message - From: Grant Peel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:53 AM Subject: gtn bot ? Hi all

Re: gtn bot ?

2007-10-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
Does anyone know where I might find some info on 'gtn'?? It would be advisable to review the thread entitled Strange perl script that is currently active on the list, dated from Oct 17th. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: gtn bot ?

2007-10-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, October 18, 2007 08:28:46 -0400 Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I missed one to. I have never seen this process befor, any ideas? 6313 1 Mon Oct 15 19:34:39 2007 0:02.71 [prox] The problem with this approach is that the bad guys don't try to accomodate