On Monday 19 October 2009 17:18, Bowie Bailey wrote: > The logs on my mail server are filling up with this kind of thing: > > Oct 19 17:03:51 bnofmail kernel: REJECT: IN=eth0 OUT= > MAC=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX SRC=195.140.240.6 > DST=XX.XX.XX.XX LEN=189 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=52 ID=6284 DF PROTO=TCP > SPT=25 DPT=32776 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 ACK PSH URGP=0 > > The source port is always 25 and the destination is a high-numbered > port. The destination address is the private IP of the server. These > seem to be related to outgoing email connections based on the source > IPs, but I don't know why they are not part of an established > connection. The mail server seems to be running just fine regardless of > these blocked connections. > > Any ideas? Are you running a mixed firewall rule set? Stateful and Connection or just one or the other? Since you state a private address, I'm going to assume you mean something in the 192.168 or similar space, is NATting an issue? -- Regards Robert Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.org