Comments on: First attempted crack? http://www.matthewsim.com/weblog/6/ Clever name pending. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:42:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on First attempted crack? by: Peter http://www.matthewsim.com/weblog/6/#comment-42 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.matthewsim.com/weblog/6/#comment-42 Very funny is that I was experimenting at home with SMTP and relaying and left my server wide open. A couple days later, I'm trying to surf the latest NASCAR news and my connection is dead. I look at the modem and it is going crazy! Someone found my mail server with its open relay and was sending thousands of XXX emails! My little linux box did its best, but the maillog got full of "undeliverable mail" messages. I had to reboot. anything can happen on the net. pxg Very funny is that I was experimenting at home with SMTP and relaying and left my server wide open. A couple days later, I’m trying to surf the latest NASCAR news and my connection is dead. I look at the modem and it is going crazy! Someone found my mail server with its open relay and was sending thousands of XXX emails! My little linux box did its best, but the maillog got full of “undeliverable mail” messages. I had to reboot.

anything can happen on the net.

pxg

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