I noticed something odd in my logs last night. It seems that someone 
is trying a name attack on my server, but they seem to be doing only 
1 to 4 names an hour, and they seem to have distributed the sending 
across the internet. Here are some of the entries in my logs:

02:07:50 3 SMTP-080(MailHub11.HUB11.COM) Failed to verify. Real 
address is [207.178.206.51:1611]
02:07:50 1 SMTP-080([207.178.206.51]) Recipient 
'<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' rejected: user unknown
02:48:12 3 SMTP-081(cpiiis) Failed to verify. Real address is 
[208.38.25.33:37984]
02:48:13 1 SMTP-081([208.38.25.33]) Recipient 
'<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' rejected: user unknown
02:49:40 3 SMTP-082(mailserver.ptpress.com.cn) Failed to verify. Real 
address is [211.101.207.138:3512]
02:49:41 1 SMTP-082([211.101.207.138]) Recipient 
'<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' rejected: user unknown
02:51:27 3 SMTP-083(mail2.kriterium.local) Failed to verify. Real 
address is [216.136.100.10:60919]
02:51:27 1 SMTP-083([216.136.100.10]) Recipient 
'<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' rejected: user unknown
...
04:32:04 3 SMTP-085(wonder.com.pl) Failed to verify. Real address is 
[213.17.165.142:18548]
04:32:07 1 SMTP-085([213.17.165.142]) Recipient 
'<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' rejected: user unknown
...
05:06:54 1 SMTP-090(salvador.edicompany.com) Recipient 
'<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' rejected: user unknown
05:08:23 3 SMTP-091(COELLI.gap.local) Failed to verify. Real address 
is [200.54.191.69:3827]
05:08:29 1 SMTP-091([200.54.191.69]) Recipient 
'<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' rejected: user unknown
...
05:18:24 3 SMTP-093(OPUSCP) Failed to verify. Real address is 
[208.5.214.39:4431]
05:18:25 1 SMTP-093([208.5.214.39]) Recipient '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' 
rejected: user unknown
05:29:37 3 SMTP-094(unibasent.mnemesis.com) Failed to verify. Real 
address is [209.88.60.210:2363]
05:29:38 1 SMTP-094([209.88.60.210]) Recipient 
'<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' rejected: user unknown
06:15:41 1 SMTP-095(mail.sol-tec.cl) Recipient 
'<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' rejected: user unknown

etc. This goes on into today. It's obviously someone just going 
through a list of possible names, but they're doing slowly, probably 
so they won't be noticed, and they appear to be doing it from dozens 
of different machines. Has anyone else seen this?

Thanks,
Darrin
-- 
Darrin Cardani - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
President, Buena Software, Inc.
<http://www.buena.com/>
Video, Image and Audio Processing Development

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