On 7/10/03 11:48 AM, "Mike Vanecek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...snip...
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]$ whois uchuu.12inch.com
> BW whois 3.4 by Bill Weinman (http://whois.bw.org/)
> Copyright 1999-2003 William E. Weinman
> Request: uchuu.12inch.com
> whois server for *.com is whois.crsnic.net ...
> connected to whois.crsnic.net [198.41.3.54:43] ...
>
> No match for "UCHUU.12INCH.COM".
>
whois 12inch.com would have given you the appropriate information. (as
12inch.com is the domain, and uchuu is a particular host in the domain)
...snip...
>> Secondly, I'd like to appologize for the inconvenience. I'm not entirely
>> sure what was causing it, but it looks like it was caused by connection
>> timeouts to your system. I've never experienced these symptoms in
>> the past, and haven't made any changes to my sendmail configuration
>> in quite some time. I've included some output from misc. commands
>> to show you what I've found. I can assure you that this was NOT a
>> DOS attack, nor a malicious attack of any sort.
>
> It looks like your server started sending me hits starting on Jul 7 19:39:51.
> I am not sure why you would be sending me mail; however, one would think that
> if your server got a time out, it would not keep sending out packets every 3-5
> seconds. The last packet was at Jul 9 10:04:01.
>
I was sending mail in reply to one of your posts on the list. I typically
use "Reply all" which will reply to the list and also send a copy directly
to the sender. My mail logs only show it trying every 4 minutes, but even
that is strange.
>> i've flushed the queue so the messages won't be retried any longer.
>>
>> I'd also like to appologize to everyone else on the list for having
>> to send this here in order to correspond with Mike, however, it's
>> quite obvious that I can't do it directly.
>
> The reason I posted it on this list was that I was wondering if it was some
> form of DOS spam attack and that the people on this list would be the most
> likely to have a heads up on such a situation.
I'm glad you posted on the list, otherwise i wouldn't have known there was a
problem.
>
>> should anyone have any suggestions as to why this might have
>> happened, i'd be very interested in making sure it doesn't happen again.
>
> I do not use sendmail, so I cannot help you there.
suggestions/comments from anyone else on the list will also be appreciated.
alan
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