Fred Smith wrote:
On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 09:28:23AM -0400, mark wrote:
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One thing I don't understand is how/why the firewall is DROPping so many attempts on port 25 when it in fact has a port forward rule sending port 25 on to my mailserver. How does it know, or why does it think that some of them can be dropped at the outer barrier?
you, but thank you for taking a hundred thousand or so for all of us.
Hey, its the least I can do for all the good guys out there! :) But that doesn't mean the same dratsabs aren't hitting all the rest of you too.
I'm sure they are. Are you running fail2ban?
And you do know that the last time someone, as a test, might have been last year, put an open PC on the 'Net, it was 20 min before it was compromised?
mark