Exhaustion is more so.
Thoughts hazy, ask again later.
But, in short. These machines all are running proxy servers, in
unusal places. They're being used as relays. A couple also have
open SMPT relays, so the spammers are probably using them too.
The real message a sysadmin gets when he sees a machine that's
still up after a year is "Did they really not find a flaw in the
kernel? I doubt that."
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