Re: amazonaws.com?

[Chris Stone <cstone () axint net>]

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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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