From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 19 15:00:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E6B106564A for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:00:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@msen.com) Received: from shell.msen.com (msen.com [148.59.86.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7DD68FC16 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:00:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Sent-To: Received: from [192.168.1.108] (c-68-40-255-141.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.40.255.141]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell.msen.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p7JF0shZ019087 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:00:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mark@msen.com) Message-ID: <4E4E7AC1.5000904@msen.com> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:01:21 -0400 From: Mark Moellering User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received-SPF: Pass (sender authenticated); receiver=msen.com; client-ip=68.40.255.141; envelope-from= Received-SPF: Pass (sender authenticated); receiver=msen.com; client-ip=68.40.255.141; helo=[192.168.1.108] X-Milter: Spamilter (Reciever: shell.msen.com; Sender-ip: 68.40.255.141; Sender-helo: [192.168.1.108]; ) Subject: My server is under attack (I think) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:00:56 -0000 I keep seeing a flood of messages when I run dmesg -a that look like this: mail sshd[1831]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 2: can't verify hostname: getaddrinfo(ip223.hichina.com, AF_INET) failed Is there anything I should be doing to make sure the server isn't compromised? It is a mail server running postfix / dovecot I have pf set up and am also running a program called sshguard. I am kind of at a loss. It looks like I am under attack but I don't know what to do about it. Any help is greatly appreciated Thanks in advance Mark Moellering mark@msen.com