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Re: Maillog Suspicious


From: chrisr () VERIMAIL COM (Christopher Rhodes)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:23:44 -0700


        Oh, I didn't notice the debug command in there, it is too early.
This mailer also didn't wrap those lines.

It looks like your server is set up ok to me.  You might want to contact
this guys administrator, and get him kicked off his account.

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On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, flirtingboy20 wrote:

Hi all, I am a bit new to Linux Administrator, and are trying my best to make my box very secure. So I've looked at 
my log files
in /var/log and found something very strange. Here is the log:

Dec 26 01:47:29 MOD2000 sendmail[1054]: NOQUEUE: Null connection from pa149.zgora.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.160.14.149]
Dec 26 01:47:51 MOD2000 sendmail[1062]: NOQUEUE: Null connection from pa149.zgora.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.160.14.149]
Dec 26 01:47:52 MOD2000 sendmail[1057]: NOQUEUE: Null connection from pa149.zgora.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.160.14.149]
Dec 26 01:47:55 MOD2000 sendmail[1067]: NOQUEUE: Null connection from pa149.zgora.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.160.14.149]
Dec 26 01:48:00 MOD2000 sendmail[1069]: NOQUEUE: "debug" command from pa149.zgora.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.160.14.149] 
(212.160.14.149)
Dec 26 01:48:00 MOD2000 sendmail[1069]: NOQUEUE: Null connection from pa149.zgora.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.160.14.149]
Dec 26 01:48:01 MOD2000 sendmail[1071]: NOQUEUE: pa149.zgora.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.160.14.149]: expn root
Dec 26 01:48:02 MOD2000 sendmail[1072]: NOQUEUE: pa149.zgora.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.160.14.149]: expn news
Dec 26 01:48:02 MOD2000 sendmail[1074]: NOQUEUE: pa149.zgora.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.160.14.149]: expn postmaster
Dec 26 01:48:03 MOD2000 sendmail[1075]: NOQUEUE: pa149.zgora.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.160.14.149]: expn majordomo
Dec 26 01:48:04 MOD2000 sendmail[1076]: NOQUEUE: pa149.zgora.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.160.14.149]: expn decode
Dec 26 01:48:05 MOD2000 sendmail[1077]: NOQUEUE:
pa149.zgoraE.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.160.14.149]: expn root
Dec 26 01:48:05 MOD2000 sendmail[1070]: NOQUEUE:
pa149.zgora.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.160.14.149]: EXPN attack?
Dec 26 01:48:06 MOD2000 sendmail[1078]: NOQUEUE: pa149.zgora.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.160.14.149]: expn admin
Dec 26 01:50:27 MOD2000 sendmail[1086]: NOQUEUE: Null connection from pa149.zgora.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.160.14.149]

Can anyone tell me exactly what this all mean?

O yeah and another thing, which files to I check to look for port probing?

Many Thanks
Adriaan



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