[Gllug] Open proxy (was: Setup ADSL to home network)

[Mark Lowes]

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 11:14, Paul Brazier wrote:
> > [assuming you sent your email from the system you're describing]
> > 
> > Unfortunately it is bad from a security point of view.  You appear to
> > have an open proxy:
> > http://relays.osirusoft.com/cgi-bin/rbcheck.cgi?195.92.141.85
> 
> I'm actually emailing from work where I think we use MS/Exchange.
> Is an "open proxy" the same as an "open relay"? So anyone (e.g.
> spammers) could be using our mail servers to send untraceable bulk
> emails?

Open proxy normally refers to an insecure http/CONNECT or SOCKS proxy
which allows random tcp traffic to be relayed on to another open relay
or your own internal mail server.

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