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Someone is using my ip address to spam. Help
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Can
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My dad and i are sharing our cable connection throught a router. 2 days ago, he recieved a mail saying that he could not write to someone because he was a spammer. I don't know what happened, but it look likes someone is using my ip adress to spam..
This is what SORBS ( fighting spam by listing exploitable servers) told me...
Address or block ( ip adress)
Description
Subject: * * and her *
Entry Created
Sun Nov 30 04:07:21 2003 GMT
Entry Last Seen
Sun Nov 30 04:07:21 2003 GMT
Spam seen from ( my address)
AHHHHH WHAT am i supposed to do!
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With mass casters comes great responsabilty - Rifleman
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Newport Beach, CA
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Did he send the email to more than 10 recipients? Sometimes mail servers won't allow a large number of recipients and kick it back as spam....
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Be a traveler, not a tourist
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2001
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There's nothing you can do, other than request another IP from your ISP (or that they take the current one out of the DHCP pool).
Spammers are notorious for stealing the services of other people and getting them shutdown as a result.
They're the reason the stupid concept of a "blacklist" exists. For example, you can't run a mail server (like just a personal one for your family) on any cable modem system in the country, because all those addresses are assumed to be used by spammers and are therefore blacklisted.
Wade
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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I run an e-mail Server at home on my cable connection and it works just fine, the only problem i had was once i used the AppleMailServer for SMTP in Jaguar Server and some dood took over my server as an open relay, I made it onto the blacklist. A quick change to my sendmail configuration worked great in stopping the problem.
-Telusman.
Originally posted by wadesworld:
There's nothing you can do, other than request another IP from your ISP (or that they take the current one out of the DHCP pool).
Spammers are notorious for stealing the services of other people and getting them shutdown as a result.
They're the reason the stupid concept of a "blacklist" exists. For example, you can't run a mail server (like just a personal one for your family) on any cable modem system in the country, because all those addresses are assumed to be used by spammers and are therefore blacklisted.
Wade
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"No ma'am i'm not angry at you, I'm angry at the cruel twist of fate that directed your call to my extension..."
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: California - Bay Area
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Not Just Another Bogus List ( njabl.org) can run tests on your server to determine if you're running an open relay.
Telnet to rt.njabl.org on port 2500 from the machine you want to test.
No point in getting a new IP address from the DHCP server if you're still running an exploitable mail server.
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