[151924] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SORBS?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Andrews)
Wed Apr 4 17:22:22 2012
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:21:51 -0500
From: Mike Andrews <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <CABgOHgv7C5Ef4Yy5HO-cdb2M2PEVxwO1jc-Zn681ya8vYb9PYw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: sgreco@proofpoint.com, nanog@nanog.org, gbhat@proofpoint.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 01:55:46PM -0700, Landon Stewart wrote:
> On 4 April 2012 12:53, Chris Conn <cconn@b2b2c.ca> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is anyone from SORBS still listening? We have a few IP addresses here
> > and there that are listed, one in particular that has been for a spam
> > incident from over a year ago. The "last spam" date is 03/05/2011
> > according to their lookup tools.
> >
> > We don't have access to their Net Manager even if our ARIN POC corresponds
> > to the account on their system we opened a while ago. We use their ISP
> > feedback form and never get any responses back.
> >
> > Is SORBS still relevant and functional?
> >
>
> I've been trying to login to their 'support' interface for a while now.
> Emails from them for creating a new account or trying to recover a
> password for an existing account don't actually come to me. I actually
> wrote Girish from the company that purchased SORBS (Proofpoint) about it
> (also CC'd here) and I have had no reply whatsoever either.
>
> I think we should all just NULL ROUTE all of their IP space on our borders
> to get their attention.
By a happy coincidence, I got mail today from Scott Greco of Proofpoint,
asking if we could get together to discuss their products. I've replied
to that with a summary of this thread, and am Cc:ing him on this mail, as
well. Maybe we can get their attention, though past experience with SORBS
does not exactly imbue me with confidence.
--
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin
