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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Using netcat as a server

Just this morning I was checking out some piece of software and was trying to setup its mail configuration. But it would not function the way I thought it was supposed to so I had a look into my mail server logfile. With the tailf -command I would be seeing the messages to and from the mail server. But as I was looking at little to no action the logfile suddenly was filling my screen with messages.

Someone was trying to use my mailserver....