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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 February 2003 2:56 pm, Simon Waters wrote: > Anyone with access to logs on a big web server with lots of > zones with A records for the domain, and MX records pointing > elsewhere. i've just stuck a rule on for port 25 of one of our domains A records on all of our ingres firewalls, which will count the connection attempts. If you remind me in 24 hours, i'll give you the results (i'll forget otherwise, for sure) ;) > Can tell me what proportion of SYN requests to port 25 look like > they might be genuine if misguided attempts to send e-mail. Or > just send me the IP addresses (assuming it is less than a > megabyte or so) and I'll do some analysis. > > Better still if you know how many mail messages were sent to the > MX servers in the same period... I can't give you an exact count offhand, though it's around 17,000 messages in a normal day (that was last months average, iirc). > Simon, losing genuine e-mail and not worried about it -- hehe > that is on my list of "signs and symptoms of inner peace" (well > not the e-mail bit), all I need now are the "frequent attacks of > smiling" and I'll have achieved enlightenment ;-) hehe =) next, you'll be drinking green tea... ~ Theo - -- Theo Zourzouvillys <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <http://theo.me.uk/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+R9Xm448CrwpTn6YRApaGAKD2CZR3SVntsuoqstUEobwnmw9qbACaAiPu JUUTvOfVFNIlukPk3fx4AFw= =rEn9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.