full-disclosure - Funny smtp helo in the logs

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Date: Sun Oct 30 16:17:17 2005
From: wqrkjhfkasdjhfa.0.lexi at spamgourmet.com (Lexi)
Subject: Funny smtp helo in the logs

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 08:09:52AM CET, Aditya Deshmukh wrote:

> I have been seeing this in my logs over all the public smtp server, from
> all over the net. 
> 
> Anyone know what sends these kinds of helo ?
> 
> *please* when responding to this mail trim out anything below this ------
> 
> 124 09/10/2005 09:54:35 HELO -1209283632  --->  250 my.smtp.domain.server  

Convert it to four single bytes and then print them in dotted notation:
-1209283632 = 0xb7ebcbd0 =  183.235.203.208

Maybe they're just IPs...

	Lexi

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