Hi Jerry,
I think you'll find the problem is quite normal and simply due to
spambots checking out your connection in preparation for sending some
spam. I get the same thing on my server (though thankfully not quite so
many!).
Spam engines don't play right on the internet because they're busy
beasts with no time for all the niceties of protocol that everyone else
uses. Their sole purpose is to send spam to as many mailboxes as
possible and if your machine is just too slow in responding they're off
onto the next unwilling victim.
Indeed there is an anti-spam technique called 'tarpitting' [1] which
relies on this behaviour to thwart spam.
It may be instructive if you try doing some reverse DNS lookups to see
who was on the other end of these reset connections. I bet you find
they are not well known addresses and probably many are from 'dial-up'
connections.
Regards,
- David.
[1] http://www.palomine.net/qmail/tarpit.html
Jerry M wrote:
I never received any response to this. It's getting more serious.
Can someone please explain what is happening to cause all of these
connection resets in James?
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