Re: Interesting Apache logs

From: Alan J. Flavell (flavell@mail.cern.ch)
Date: 03/26/02

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    From: "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@mail.cern.ch>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 01:00:49 +0100

    On Mar 25, Barry Margolin inscribed on the eternal scroll:

    > I remember the furor that arose last year when many ISPs started blocking
    > port 80 inbound to residential customers, to prevent propagation of Code
    > Red and NIMDA. They're damned if they do, damned if they don't.

    Sounds as if they hadn't thought-through their AUP beforehand.

    > What you should do is report the problem to the Abuse departments of the
    > appropriate ISPs.

    Who'll then send back an anodyne recorded statement saying they've
    passed the victim's details on to their abusive customer and can't
    tell you anything more about what happened.

    > Then they can track down the customers and tell them to
    > fix their systems.

    ipchains does a nice job, but I find it works best with large
    netblocks. *)

    I'm sorry: we (back at the campus - at cern I'm just another user and
    it's none of my business what their security scanner gets up to) try
    not to wait for victims to complain: known abuses are tested for, and
    nipped in the bud. I'm not saying that cases don't slip through, of
    course they do, but I'd like to see a more pro-active approach from
    other providers.

    FYI our network provider tried nearly 500 different ways to get our
    mailer to relay spam over the past weekend. If they succeeded, we'll
    get a formal notice, and if we fail to attend to it, we'd get shut
    down.

    And (with my deputy postmaster hat on) I'm all in favour of it.

    ttfn

    *) please adjust your irony threshold as necessary

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