On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Stefan Hoffmeister wrote:
why would anyone want to continue to talk to a non-existing SMTP server on a dynamic IP (/var/log/firewall log excerpt below)?
I think the user of this ip before you used his host for a mailserver with a MX record still pointing to this ip. (possible with dyndns)
I figure that the other side had some kind of ... hiccup?
Similarly, why would someone want to literally keep spamming port 6346 (GNUtella?) for almost two hours considering that there is exactly nothing that will reply?
If this IP was seen on the gnutella-network before you got it, hosts will try it for hours to connect to the network. (the clients log the ips they saw and try them when reconnecting) Getting this junk is the fun of dynip ;) c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/)