You are not alone, I've also been attacked by someone from this alter.net site. Do a google search for alter.net and you should find more information. From my searches, alter.net is a small? ISP in BC canada... On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:17:42 -0800, you wrote: >There is an ip number that started showing up in my postfix logs >as trying to access my smtp server (and access was apparently >denied each time). I assumed that someone was trying to use >my machine as a relay. To make sure that they can't get through, >I blocked the ip address using ipchains. In one day, I now >see over 600 failed attempts to access my computer. Should I >just ignore this now that ipchains is blocking them, or is this >something that should worry me. > >More details: >ipchains message (my ip # x-ed out to protect the innocent): >Nov 28 23:59:07 duck kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 >63.98.105.3:8 208.xxx.xxx.xx1:0 L=60 S=0x00 I=6793 F=0x0000 T=114 (#1) > >nslookup for 63.98.105.3 gives nothing. >traceroute ends at readersdigest-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.210.42)
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