[101339] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DreamHost Contact?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stasiniewicz, Adam)
Mon Dec 31 05:49:10 2007
From: "Stasiniewicz, Adam" <stasinia@msoe.edu>
To: "'Michael Greb'" <mgreb@linode.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4778570D.1040301@linode.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:48:16 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In a previous job (circa mid 2004), I had attempted to get materials =
removed from a DreamHost client (they where hosting it in violation of =
my, at the time, employer's copyright). The DreamHost abuse process was =
completely useless, and we ended up having to take direct action against =
the website operator to get the content removed. During this process I =
did some research into DreamHost and found some very interesting =
articles. Here is a more recently published one that highlights what I =
am getting at =
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2007/05/us_based_terror.php (I should =
note, the site is still up and still hosted by DreamHost). =20
I am 99.9% sure that after successfully hosting websites for Al-Qaeda =
for over 3 years (on US based servers, by US citizens, living in the US) =
they are not going to care much about some SSH port scan.
My $0.02,
Adam Stasiniewicz
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of =
Michael Greb
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 8:42 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: DreamHost Contact?
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I've attempted to contact DreamHost NOC or Abuse departments via the
numbers in whois but just get voice mail and no call back.
I've got a user sending a lot of UDP traffic to 208.113.189.13 port 22.
This traffic is very likely undesirable and I'd be willing to pull the
plug immediately if I can get confirmation from DreamHost. Failing that
I've opened an abuse ticket with the customer and given them 12 hours to
respond.
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Michael Greb
Linode.com, LLC
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