Re: Sudden activity on smtp port

From: John Oliver (joliver@john-oliver.net)
Date: 12/16/02 

From: joliver@john-oliver.net (John Oliver)
Date: 16 Dec 2002 19:08:33 GMT

On 16 Dec 2002 18:01:29 GMT, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On a machine with an MX record pointing somewhere else, and in general
> not accepting smtp connections, recently I observe constant attempts to
> hook up to this port anyway. It started a bit over a week ago with
> packets coming from a machine apparently located in Korea but now it is
> all over the map.

If there's no MX record pointing to that machine, then it probably
doesn't need to handle mail. I would kill the SMTP daemon... that'll
solve the issue. 

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