Your description sounds like a spammer, but it's hard to tell.  Check
your /var/log/maillog and see what's going on.  That IP resolves to
callisto.hmdnsgroup.com.

HTH,
Nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:31 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Com
> Subject: Netstat -an readings
> 
> 
> I was running the netstat -an command and I noticed that I 
> have multiple
> connections to port 25 on my server. My mail sending has been 
> slow, so I
> am guessing this is the reason. What I don't understand is why this IP
> has multiple connections established to my port 25. In total there are
> 13 connections. Is this a DOS attack or is this normal? I 
> compared this
> to our company mail server and there is nothing like this on it.
> 
> 
> tcp        0      0 192.168.0.2:25          63.247.132.19:52355
> ESTABLISHED
> tcp        0      0 192.168.0.2:25          63.247.132.19:52129
> ESTABLISHED
> tcp        0      0 192.168.0.2:25          63.247.132.19:49572
> ESTABLISHED
> tcp        0      0 192.168.0.2:25          63.247.132.19:52410
> ESTABLISHED
> tcp        0      0 192.168.0.2:25          63.247.132.19:53274
> ESTABLISHED
> tcp        0      0 192.168.0.2:25          63.247.132.19:52184
> ESTABLISHED
> tcp        0      0 192.168.0.2:25          63.247.132.19:50527
> ESTABLISHED
> tcp        0      0 192.168.0.2:25          63.247.132.19:51408
> ESTABLISHED
> tcp        0      0 192.168.0.2:25          63.247.132.19:53012
> ESTABLISHED
> tcp        0      0 192.168.0.2:25          63.247.132.19:50805
> ESTABLISHED
> 
> Richard Humphrey
> 
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