Monday, January 13, 2003, 1:34:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>> I have been confused by an entry in my daily stats. Each and every day
> shows
>> the same number of connections from on of MY boxes, 63.237.136.17. This
> box
>> is used for my customers personal websites. Yet every day for over a month
>> the box makes exactly 287 connections to my Imgate box. Below is a snippet
>> from my logs grepping for a stmpd process associated with that IP address.
>> Any thoughts.

> Len already mentioned a cracked machine.  That is one possibility.

> Some form or application that is an open relay is another.

>> Host/Domain Summary: SMTPD Connections (top 25)
>>  connections  time conn.  avg./conn.  max. time  host/domain
>>  -----------  ----------  ----------  ---------  -----------
>>       287        0:00:22          0s         1s   63.237.136.17

> Was the below the whole log snippet?

> There is very little from 63.237.136.17 in this log fragment.  So little
> that this looks like a probe.

How about network managment software opening a connection and closing it to
see if your server is running/answering SMTP?  Do you have netsaint, nagios,
etc. set up on that box to check the imgate?

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-- 
Chris Scott
Host Orlando, Inc.
http://www.hostorlando.com/


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