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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:26:01
Message-Id: 06CD84F6-F605-4836-A3BA-716BD14261DB@jolet.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?) by Michael Sullivan
1 On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
2
3 > I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to
4 > check
5 > my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be
6 > running, I ps'd for it:
7 >
8 > bullet mail # ps ax | grep 'sendmail'
9 > 9939 ? Ss 0:00 sendmail: Queue runner@00:30:00
10 > for /var/spool/clientmqueue
11 > 10305 ? Ss 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections
12 > 10801 ? S 0:00 sendmail: ./k0FKmpDE010833
13 > gpeplpqel.shankscape.com.: user open
14 > 10810 pts/0 R+ 0:00 grep sendmail
15 >
16 >
17 > I see that sendmail is connected with gpeplpqel.shankscape.com. I
18 > assume that someone at that host is trying to send mail to my domain,
19 > but I checked /var/spool/mail and I didn't see anything from them. I
20 > ps'd sendmail again and saw that they were no longer connected. I
21 > checked /var/log/maillog and see a bunch of these:
22 >
23 > Jan 17 11:04:10 bullet sm-mta[10801]: k0FKmpDE010833:
24 > to=<kkaempf@××××××××××××××××××××.com>, delay=1+20:15:18,
25 > xdelay=00:03:10, mailer=esmtp, pri=8599167,
26 > relay=gpeplpqel.shankscape.com. [69.25.212.153], dsn=4.0.0,
27 > stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with gpeplpqel.shankscape.com.
28 >
29 > Is there a way to make sure that unauthorized people are not sending
30 > mail through my domain?
31 >
32 telnet yourdomain.com 25
33 helo somedomain.com
34 msg from someforeigndomain.com
35 rcpt to someotherforeigndomain.com
36
37 see if it slaps you down (note, i may have the msg from and rcpt to
38 backwards, always forget)
39 >
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?) Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>