On 9/28/2002 at 5:34 PM Andy Sparrow wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Heywood Jblome wrote: >> >> > -----------This is the entry in question-------- >> > Sep 27 13:44:40 medusa sm-mta[1742]: g8RIiXgt001742: >> > from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=1, >> > proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=[202.80.192.29] >> >> Could this just be someone doing the following: >> >> telnet mx1.zzzzzz.com 25 >> helo blah >> mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> quit > >Increasinly common spammer trick, as is hitting the lowest-numbered MX
>in DNS /first/ (and often only) on the principle that it's less likely >to be well-secured.... ============= Do you mean the MX with the higher number, rather than lower number? For my domain, my backup MX is priority 100, my main MX is priority 0. Or do I have these critters set up backwards? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message