On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:18:50AM -0700, Travis Ogdon wrote:

> Ramin Alidousti wrote:
> 
> > Do you only get FIN packets? What about DPT (33151), is it the
> > port you send your original email to hotmail?
> > 
> > Ramin
> 
> They're all FIN packets, yes. The DPT is random per offense (ie. for every
> group of 10 or whatever I get from hotmail the DPT is always the same, but
> it never coincides with previous or future offenses). Again, these come from
> IP addresses that are NOT found in my smtp logs. The smtp server (unless I'm
> really confused about postfix) should be sending out via port 25 I would
> think... it's just running on a standard port with the basic configuration.

It would not surprise me if these IP's are running some M$ OS and
as usual the IP stack is broken and they spew out INVALID packets.
I've seen similar FIN flooding while accessing M$ based web servers.
Just ignore them.

Ramin

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