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From: lkcl <luke.leighton@gmail.com>
To: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@gnu.org>,
	fche@redhat.org, overseers@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [Frank Ch. Eigler] Re: friend reports blocked IP address
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 21:57:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPweEDxZiaAto+PoMhtZCmYcSwBK2cTFfAsCw3eCBE7varWB3g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <oreegbosct.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org>

the setup of sourceware.org has been triggering exim4 to put warnings
such as the following into /var/log/exim4/mainlog:
2021-03-19 20:01:35 no IP address found for host
ip-8-43-85-97.sourceware.org (during SMTP connection from
[8.43.85.97])

i have fail2ban set up to monitor for such "no IP address" messages,
and enough of those will trigger a full-on recidive ban for at least 2
weeks.  this is what you hit, Frank, so apologies, the tests you did
would have been invalid (expected behaviour).

i've since whitelisted 8.43.85.97 (as of 3 hours ago) so any further
tests you do should succeed to 217.147.94.29

the outgoing connection from postfix running on sourceware.org appears
to be reporting its hostname as "ip-8-43-85-97.sourceware.org".  this
is a hostname that doesn't exist.

where exim4, as the recipient incoming connection, is getting that
host name from, i couldn't tell you.  i don't know if it's making that
up (unlikely), or if it's part of the HELO from postfix (plausible),
or other.

l.

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 7:31 PM Alexandre Oliva <oliva@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> FYI

(thx)

>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
> To: Overseers mailing list <overseers@sourceware.org>
> Cc: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@gnu.org>
> Bcc:
> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:26:13 -0400
> Subject: Re: friend reports blocked IP address
> Hi -

> In the postfix logs, I see numerous errors like:
>
> Mar 19 15:22:05 server2 postfix/smtp[3889716]: connect to smtp.lkcl.net[2002:2eeb:e34d::1]:25: Connection timed out
> Mar 19 15:22:35 server2 postfix/smtp[3889716]: connect to smtp.lkcl.net[217.147.94.29]:25: Connection timed out
> Mar 19 15:23:05 server2 postfix/smtp[3889716]: connect to smtp2.lkcl.net[217.147.94.29]:25: Connection timed out
> Mar 19 15:23:05 server2 postfix/smtp[3889716]: 7F05B3857C60: to=<lkcl@lkcl.net>, relay=none, delay=357781, delays=357691/0/90/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to smtp2.lkcl.net[217.147.94.29]:25: Connection timed out)
>
> and a local outgoing telnet confirms inability to reach that host on
> port 25, but I don't think it's anything we're doing.
>
>
> - FChE

       reply	other threads:[~2021-03-19 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <oreegbosct.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org>
2021-03-19 21:57 ` lkcl [this message]
2021-03-19 22:01   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2021-03-19 22:04     ` lkcl

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