[OT] Anyone experience DoS symptoms with mta*.adelphia.net?

Denis Beauchemin Denis.Beauchemin at USherbrooke.ca
Mon Jan 29 17:18:44 CET 2007


dnsadmin 1bigthink.com a écrit :
> Hello All,
>
> I've got two different users under milter-greylist that are receiving 
> mail from mta*.adelphia.net and it looks like a DoS, but could be a 
> misbehaved MTA. The DNS does resolve to a host.
>
> Jan 25 19:55:42 mxt milter-greylist: l0Q0jqpr027000: addr 
> mta8.adelphia.net[68.168.78.196] from <> to <someone at here> delayed for 
> 00:05:10 (ACL 634)
> Jan 25 19:55:42 mxt sendmail[27000]: l0Q0jqpr027000: Milter: 
> to=<someone at here>, reject=451 4.7.1 Greylisting in action, please come 
> back later
>
> ALSO:
>
> Jan 26 20:33:58 mxt milter-greylist: l0R1XJAh017040: addr 
> mta10.adelphia.net[68.168.78.202] from <someone at adelphia.net> to 
> <someone at here> delayed for 00:14:21 (ACL 634)
> Jan 26 20:33:58 mxt sendmail[17040]: l0R1XJAh017040: Milter: 
> to=<someone at here>, reject=451 4.7.1 Greylisting in action, please come 
> back later
> Jan 26 20:33:59 mxt milter-greylist: l0R1XJAj017040: addr 
> mta10.adelphia.net[68.168.78.202] from <someone at adelphia.net> to 
> <someone at here> delayed for 00:14:20 (ACL 634)
> Jan 26 20:33:59 mxt sendmail[17040]: l0R1XJAj017040: Milter: 
> to=<someone at here>, reject=451 4.7.1 Greylisting in action, please come 
> back later
>
> I changed the names to 'someone' to protect the innocent.
>
> Of course, I've reported the problem and their abuse at adelphia.net does 
> not deliver.
>
> Should they be whitelisted in milter-greylist?
>
> Thanks,
> Glenn Parsons
>
Glenn,

I guess you are receiving many more of these because there seems to be 
nothing wrong with what you posted. 2 different messages (2 diff. msg 
IDs) on different dates being greylisted.  Looks fine to me.

Denis

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