Dean Brooks wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:10:42AM -0400, B. Cook wrote: > > >>Is anyone else being bombarded by these? >> >>grep -c "H=(netzero.com)" /var/log/exim/mainlog >>167232 >> >>I have something like 35k uniq ips.. or am I the only lucky one today? > > > Hmm, looks like there may be something going on, yeah. > > We've had 85,000 of those today since 4am. I checked back in our logs > and it started about 3 days ago. Ever since then, we've been > averaging about 100,000 per day. > > We had a few reports of other mail servers getting unusual levels > of traffic today. I may check to see if its related... > > -- > Dean Brooks > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Only 1174 over the past six months here, but most are very recent. All were being ID'ed as invalid recipient, connection abandoned by their zombies after a time in 'jail'. We've dropped their helo into a local BL, so will now block at HELO without wasting further connection time. Thanks for the 'heads up'. Bill Hacker -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
