Gordon Soukoreff writes:
>
>
> I've been getting a quite a few of remote smtpd ( remote ) connects that
> retry and retry over again. I'm not sure what to make of it.
>
> This is how I start qmail-smtpd:
>
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u1002 -g101 0 smtp
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 &
>
> This is what I'm getting in my logs:
>
> Apr 5 11:10:40 xadex smtpd: 923335840.544574 tcpserver: ok 1883
> xadex.blah.net:xxx.xxx.230.11:25 www.ancestry.com:192.216.182.65::1666
> Apr 5 11:10:43 xadex smtpd: 923335843.250874 tcpserver: ok 1887
> xadex.blah.net:xxx.xxx.230.11:25 www.ancestry.com:192.216.182.65::1683
> Apr 5 11:10:44 xadex smtpd: 923335844.438855 tcpserver: ok 1889
> xadex.blah.net:xxx.xxx.230.11:25 www.ancestry.com:192.216.182.65::1684
> Apr 5 11:10:45 xadex smtpd: 923335845.648476 tcpserver: ok 1892
> xadex.blah.net:xxx.xxx.230.11:25 www.ancestry.com:192.216.182.65::1685
>
> [... over and over again ( The names and nos. have been changed to protect
> the inocent ) ]
>
> At first I thought it was some kind of SPAM relaying but now I'm not sure.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas ?
Let's see:
Trying 192.216.182.65...
Connected to 192.216.182.65.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-ancweb003.ancestry.com Microsoft SMTP MAIL ready at Tue, 6 Apr 1999
10:17:39 -0700 Version: 5.5.1877.977.9
220 ESMTP spoken here
Hopefully, that answers your question.
If not, just firewall them, and forget about it.
--
Sam
