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[Anjan Chhetry]

>From: Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>
>Reply-To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
>To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
>Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Sympatico smtp
>Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:46:04 -0400
>
>On Saturday 18 October 2003 01:56, Teddy Mills wrote:
>
> > I was told by Sympatico that the email servers were bogged down by 
>rampant
> > email viruses, causing,
> > essentially an indirect  DOS attack.
>
>I don't doubt it one bit.  Yesterday I received 276 viruses, the day before 
>335 it's
>been 200+ viruses per day for over a month.  Now my viruses aren't coming 
>through
>Sympatico's servers but still I can imagine that 40+MB of email for every 
>user
>would be an enormous problem, I rather doubt their email architecture was 
>meant
>to handle that.  If they do virus scanning the resource requirements must 
>be
>huge.
>
>I wonder how ISPs are going to deal with this? I feel the house of cards 
>(Windows)
>is getting close to falling down.  ISPs have to take serious action 
>(disabling
>connections of customers with infections) otherwise the nightmare will just 
>get
>worse.
>
> > This in addition to their port 25 filtering, is one reason I try and 
>stay
> > away from Sympatico, it at all posssible.
>
>Personally I think it's irresponsible for a residential ISP to not block 
>smtp.
>Now whether they actually have monitoring in place to take advantage
>of their capabilities for stopping spam and virus spread is another 
>question.
>
> > Sending email is the problem.
> > But there are other Silly Sympatico Systemic SMTP Symptoms.
> >
> >
> > telnet smtp1.sympatico.ca 25
> > Trying 209.226.175.80...
> > Connected to smtp1.sympatico.ca.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > 220 tomts33-srv.bellnexxia.net ESMTP server (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05
> > 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) ready Sat, 18 Oct 2003 01:47:16 -0400
> >
> >
> > Who the heck makes InterMail? Is that the email server?
>
>Dunno, I agree not using postfix seems silly though ;-)
>
> > As you can see, if you ping smtp1.sympatico.ca repeatly, you get 
>different
> > ips, 80/81/82...
> >
> > smtp27.sympatico.ca     internet address = 209.226.175.81
> > smtp27.sympatico.ca     internet address = 209.226.175.82
>
>This is fine, I'd be *very* worried if they did not have multiple servers,
>unfortunately they might be needing more.
>
>The quickest solution will be the day that someone writes a virus to
>destroy all the Windows systems on the Internet, sadly it will destroy
>countless businesses but at least the rest of us will be able to use the
>Internet in peace (although we'll be very busy converting everyone to
>unix and other real operating systems).  I am convinced that this is
>going to happen.
>
>--
>Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>                 http://www.wehave.net/
>Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada                             Debian GNU/Linux
>
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