[104707] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: amazonaws.com?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Stone)
Fri May 23 20:13:05 2008
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 18:12:55 -0600
From: Chris Stone <cstone@axint.net>
To: Patrick Clochesy <patrick@chegg.com>
In-Reply-To: <7620A2BC-CDC9-4DF7-8C85-344D86BB5627@chegg.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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Patrick Clochesy wrote:
> EC2 is a pay-per-cycle service, where you can run your work on their
> servers. Probably one of their clients. Try abuse@?
>
> -Patrick
>
> On May 23, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Is it just us or does someone pWn *.amazonaws.com?
>>
>> Every one of our mail servers is being slammed by I'm not sure what
>> but many thousands of user unknowns per hour (fortunately we handle
>> those pretty quickly but this is a deluge.)
>>
>> All I know is "amazonaws.com" is "Amazon Web Services", not sure if
>> these particular systems should be sending email at all, the hostnames
>> look like:
>>
Send to abuse@amazon.com - amazonaws.com has no MX:
[cstone@csmdv ~]$ host -tmx amazonaws.com
amazonaws.com has no MX record
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