hehe, didnt even notice max untill i hit reply...

the this be a screwy way to get some poor implementation of
gethostbyname() (windows?) to interpret as an ip address? i vaguely
recall an ie flaw a few years back doing something similar to disguise
urls.. but i think they were removing dots like this:

http://19216818/pornsite.html 

dont remember 
-phar


On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 00:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> this has been going on for weeks.
> 
> i believe they're all open proxies or spambots.
> 
> (some of us use this as an oracle for open proxies.)
> 
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 04:39:14PM -0500, max wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I find this inmy logs throughout the day today:
> > 
> > Dec 28 16:35:52 finn postfix/smtpd[13320]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from 
> > pcp0012209034pcs.blairblvd.tn.nash.comcast.net[69.245.57.210]: 501 
> > <-1217882552>: Helo command rejected: Invalid name; from=<[EMAIL 
> > PROTECTED]> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> proto=SMTP helo=<-1217882552>
> > 
> > Notice that helo section is a negative number (which is why my postfix 
> > rejects the message)
> > There are about 5 messages a minute at its peak, and this has been going on 
> > most of the day today (EST time zone)
> > Some of the connecting IP's are listed in various black lists, such as OPM.
> > 
> > Has anyone noticed this as well? Is this a virus or just some new spam tool?
> > Some more rejected messages below:
> > 
> > Dec 28 16:37:50 finn postfix/smtpd[34627]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from 
> > cpe-66-75-65-130.socal.res.rr.com[66.75.65.130]: 501 <-1218008120>: Helo 
> > command rejected: Invalid name; from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to=<[EMAIL 
> > PROTECTED]> proto=SMTP helo=<-1218008120>
> > 
> > Dec 28 16:37:54 finn postfix/smtpd[13320]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from 
> > unknown[219.130.49.89]: 554 Service unavailable; Client host 
> > [219.130.49.89] blocked using opm.blitzed.org; Open proxy - see 
> > http://opm.blitzed.org/219.130.49.89; from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to=<[EMAIL 
> > PROTECTED]> proto=SMTP helo=<-1209697480>
> > 
> > Dec 28 16:38:10 finn postfix/smtpd[34627]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from 
> > 194-144-9-218.du.xdsl.is[194.144.9.218]: 501 <-1209697480>: Helo command 
> > rejected: Invalid name; from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > proto=SMTP helo=<-1209697480>
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Max

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