asked on 1/1/2015

exchange 2013 receive connector reject

Hi.
I am getting the following warning in my exchange 2013 error logs:

Receive connector Internet Connector HFC-EKHAT rejected an incoming
connection from IP address 1xx.2xx.1xx.1xx.
The maximum number of connections per source (20)
for this connector has been reached by this source IP address.

This appears constantly in the logs. This is incoming from a country that we don't usually send or receive mails from often.

Is this normal or could this point to something more sinister?

Thanks.

Exchange Email Servers

Last Comment

Gareth Gudger

1/2/2015

Gareth Gudger

1/2/2015

Sounds like someone is trying to perform some sort of denial of service attack. It sounds like Exchange is your first hop. Do you have any kind of message hygiene software, appliance or cloud service in front of your Exchange server? If not, I'd recommend it.

fijiboy

1/2/2015

ASKER

Thanks Gareth. We currently do not have a service in front of our email server apart from our corporate firewall. Am looking at some security for email security etc. Is there something I can do hardware the server in the meanwhile? They seem to be connecting on port 25.

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Gareth Gudger

1/2/2015

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