Mail DDOS

Posted by Christopher Smith Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:25:00 GMT

It appears as though I am experiencing an e-mail based DDOS. As near as I can tell, thousands if not millions of messages addressed to jslopez@xman.org are bouncing around the Internets as I write this. I have no idea why this e-mail address was selected (AFAIK, this address has never been a valid address). Furthermore, the DATA segment of the e-mails appears to be empty. Greylist rejects seem to cause many of the botsMTA’s to immediately attempt another delivery.

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