[Mimedefang] I'd expect better from CERN

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Mon Jan 16 15:25:22 EST 2006


Apparently, they're not running a very tight ship.  I'm seeing:

Jan 15 15:16:04 mail sendmail[17255]: NOQUEUE: connect from 
cernmx08.cern.ch [137.138.166.172]
Jan 15 15:16:04 mail sendmail[17255]: AUTH: available mech=DIGEST-MD5 
ANONYMOUS
CRAM-MD5, allowed mech=EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN
Jan 15 15:16:04 mail sendmail[17255]: k0FMG4nc017255: Milter 
(mimdefang): init success to negotiate
Jan 15 15:16:04 mail sendmail[17255]: k0FMG4nc017255: Milter: connect to 
filtersJan 15 15:16:04 mail mimedefang.pl[16045]: relay: 
137.138.166.172, cernmx08.cern.ch
Jan 15 15:16:04 mail mimedefang.pl[16045]: relay: 137.138.166.172 
matches 0.0.0.0/0
Jan 15 15:16:04 mail mimedefang.pl[16045]: relay: CONTINUE: OK
Jan 15 15:16:04 mail sendmail[17255]: k0FMG4nc017255: cernmx08.cern.ch 
[137.138.166.172] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to 
MTA-v4


So it looks like one or more of their MX servers either has user access on
it, and/or it's been compromised... and this has been going on for months.

I tried to point it out to them, but didn't hear back.

Anyone know what exactly they are probing for, or have they seen this?

I might want to try to transcribe the session next time...

-Philip




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