[H-GEN] News posting.

[John Boggon]

Hi all,

          I post one test message to two newsgroups, uq.test and alt.test
and within 24 hours my syslog starts filling with these sorts of messages.

May  4 21:09:46 dragon leafnode[1194]: refused connect from bi4pc.sds.no
May  4 22:19:30 dragon leafnode[1245]: refused connect from
dial559.skypoint.net
May  4 22:42:12 dragon leafnode[1267]: refused connect from
imk45.mb.Uni-Magdeburg.DE
May  4 23:56:34 dragon leafnode[1451]: refused connect from gw.nhnet.org
May  5 00:00:19 dragon leafnode[1464]: refused connect from
rhombus.mdm.mke.execpc.com
May  5 17:09:02 dragon leafnode[931]: refused connect from
siepc3.grumed.fu-berlin.de
May  5 18:29:01 dragon leafnode[1047]: refused connect from
ip106.jeffnet.org
May  5 20:18:42 dragon leafnode[1173]: refused connect from
mortens.virtek.no
May  5 21:47:37 dragon leafnode[1534]: refused connect from
boromir.matpr.kth.se
May  5 23:30:09 dragon leafnode[1731]: refused connect from
2.p1.usr02.MIA.Icanect.Net
May  5 23:41:24 dragon leafnode[1745]: refused connect from
207-172-197-7.s7.as1.smf.erols.com

Are these messages attempts from spammers to relay through me or are they
normal ?

Honestly, I have only posted the two messages in about 6 months. Going back
through my logs reveals nothing else. Leafnode picks news up from uq for my
local system.

John.




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