Fred Smith wrote: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 09:28:23AM -0400, mark wrote: <MVNCH> > 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