You might catch false positives from any "uptime" monitoring sites that
you might have subscribed to, e.g. those listed here:
https://www.hostingadvice.com/how-to/website-uptime-monitoring/

On 2/21/20 11:54 AM, Mike wrote:
> 
> Seeing these things in my log postfix log file:
> 
> Feb 21 10:43:47 d postfix/smtps/smtpd[18263]: warning: hostname
> ip-113-92.4vendeta.com does not resolve to address 78.128.113.92
> Feb 21 10:43:47 x postfix/smtps/smtpd[18263]: connect from
> unknown[78.128.113.92]
> Feb 21 10:43:47 x postfix/smtps/smtpd[18263]: lost connection after
> UNKNOWN from unknown[78.128.113.92]
> Feb 21 10:43:47 x postfix/smtps/smtpd[18263]: disconnect from
> unknown[78.128.113.92]
> 
> Instances where something is connecting but not failing auth and instead
> hanging up, but over and over again, wasting system resources.
> 
> Does anybody have a jail to monitor and block this stuff?  Or is it
> ill-advised?   Can this catch false positives?
> 
> 
> 
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