RE: [squid-users] Odd Logs

From: Lightfoot.Michael <Lightfoot.Michael@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:11:33 +1100

> > 138.89.169.242 - - [27/Oct/2002:00:01:04 -0500] "CONNECT
> > mx2.mail.yahoo.com:25 HTTP/1.0" 200 271 TCP_MISS:DIRECT
> [User-Agent:
> > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT
> 5.0)\r\nCache-Control:
> > private,no-cache\r\nPragma: no-cache\r\n] []
> >
> > Any ideas why I would have a request from port 25 coming in?
>
> I may be reading the common log format incorrectly, but this doesn't
> look like a request coming /from/ port 25 to me. It looks like a
> request connecting /to/ port 25 using the CONNECT method to set up a
> tunnel. In other words someone is relaying mail through your
> proxy, and
> not getting a TCP_DENIED response. That's a bad thing, and not the
> default for Squid.
>
No, it is someone using SSL to read their Yahoo mailbox.

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