[79386] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: botted hosts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Apr 5 08:34:08 2005
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:02:59 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Cc: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>, Dave Rand <dlr@bungi.com>,
Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>, Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0504051325250.17192@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Apr 5, 2005 5:56 PM, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> >
> > Others just grab the smtp server (and AUTH settings if any) from your
> > MUA - easier if its Outlook / OE - and send using that smarthost.
>
> Has that actually been observed in the wild?
We (Outblaze) have been seeing this for over a year now. Carl Hutzler
at AOL has posted in various lists about having seen it for rather
longer than that.
I think it also hit the register after they interviewed someone at spamhaus
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
