Re: High Number Of Connection Attempts

2012-02-04 Thread Pete
On 04/02/2012 18:45, Simon Brereton wrote: On Feb 4, 2012 1:03 PM, "Pete" mailto:p...@nrth.org>> wrote: > > On 04/02/2012 17:58, Nick Bright wrote: >> >> On 2/4/2012 11:47 AM, Pete wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Can someone confirm that the log excerpt below is most likely a bot of >>> s

Re: High Number Of Connection Attempts

2012-02-04 Thread Simon Brereton
On Feb 4, 2012 1:03 PM, "Pete" wrote: > > On 04/02/2012 17:58, Nick Bright wrote: >> >> On 2/4/2012 11:47 AM, Pete wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Can someone confirm that the log excerpt below is most likely a bot of >>> some kind attempting to authenticate to my Postfix server please ? >>> >> >> T

Re: High Number Of Connection Attempts

2012-02-04 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 4/2/2012 7:58 μμ, Nick Bright wrote: The only thing I have found is ConfigServer firewall: http://configserver.com/cp/csf.html It is a dynamic firewall containing a "login failure daemon" that monitors for failed logins on various services, and blocks offending IP's based on your defined

Re: High Number Of Connection Attempts

2012-02-04 Thread Pete
On 04/02/2012 17:58, Nick Bright wrote: On 2/4/2012 11:47 AM, Pete wrote: Hello, Can someone confirm that the log excerpt below is most likely a bot of some kind attempting to authenticate to my Postfix server please ? That looks like a brute force attempt, or at least a bot looking for weak

Re: High Number Of Connection Attempts

2012-02-04 Thread Nick Bright
On 2/4/2012 11:47 AM, Pete wrote: Hello, Can someone confirm that the log excerpt below is most likely a bot of some kind attempting to authenticate to my Postfix server please ? That looks like a brute force attempt, or at least a bot looking for weak passwords. I see the same things in my