RE: fix.your.open.relay.or.die.net

Don't know who they are Nathan, but if you put that host name in a
browser you'll get to a site (http://www.die.net/spam/) which will give
you an explanation.

Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]
> On Behalf Of Nathan M. Andelin
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:23 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: fix.your.open.relay.or.die.net
>
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> --
> My OS/400 SMTP server has been REALLY busy this morning.  It's a
little
> disconcerting to have somebody abusing my server, for reasons unknown
to
> me.
> SMTP jobs are driving CPU usage to ++++ %.
>
> One clue is the Remote Host Name "fix.your.open.relay.or.die.net" on
> TCP/IP
> port 209.151.233.24.  Anybody know who those folks are?  And, how to
get
> them to stop?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nathan M. Andelin
> www.relational-data.com
>
>
> --
> [ Nathan M. Andelin.vcf of type text/x-vcard deleted ]
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