ipop3d logwatch entry suspicious

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Roberto Figueroa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm getting a lot of this entries in the LogWatch mail under ipop3d
> section:
> 
> Success, while reading line user=appowner
> host=customer123-149-157.iplannetworks.net
> <http://customer123-149-157.iplannetworks.net> [200.123.149.157
> <http://200.123.149.157>]: 1
> Time(s)
>     Success, while reading line user=mysql
> host=customer123-149-157.iplannetworks.net
> <http://customer123-149-157.iplannetworks.net> [200.123.149.157
> <http://200.123.149.157>]: 1
> Time(s)
>     Success, while reading line user=john
> host=customer123-149-157.iplannetworks.net
> <http://customer123-149-157.iplannetworks.net> [200.123.149.157
> <http://200.123.149.157>]: 1
> Time(s)
> 
> I'm also getting entries like this which I suppose are normal:
> 
> Update user=USERNAME host=[LOCAL_IP_ADDR] nmsgs=0 ndele=1: 1 Time(s)
> 
> (text in caps refer to real existing users and ip)
> 
> Obviously we don´t have any relationship with iplannetworks.net
> <http://iplannetworks.net> domain
> I'm running FC 5.
> Didn't find any info on google.
> 
> ¿do I must be worried?
> 
> thanks in advance.
> Robert.
> 
It looks like john is checking his mail from home/work using
iplannetworks.net as their ISP. If you are allowing users to check
their mail over the Internet, then I would not worry too much. If
your firewall is supposed to be blocking incomming connections from
the Internet, then you have a problem.

Mikkel
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