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

And people look at me funny when I say that I would never connect my
production AS/400 to the net!

How was the response time on the AS/400 during this attack? If CPU was ++++
I'd guess response time wasn't great. I would call this a successful DoS
attack on the AS/400.

-Walden

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Walden H Leverich III
President
Tech Software
(516)627-3800 x11
WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com
http://www.TechSoftInc.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan M. Andelin [mailto:nandelin@relational-data.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:23 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: fix.your.open.relay.or.die.net


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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


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