Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

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From: Peter N. M. Hansteen
Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 1:50 am

Craig Skinner <craig.skinner@kepax.co.uk> writes:


I think what happened here is that somebody let the random address
generator run for longer than intended.  

One or more spammer groups has been doing similar things to some of
the domains I admin for some months now, and the typical rate of new,
essentially random, addresses found per day is about 20, sometimes as
high as 50, and in one case more than 700.  That last one was probably
a case of asleep at the wheel too.

-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/
"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
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SMTP flood + spamdb, patrick keshishian, (Sun Sep 23, 3:33 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Darrin Chandler, (Sun Sep 23, 5:39 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, patrick keshishian, (Sun Sep 23, 8:53 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Daniel Ouellet, (Sun Sep 23, 8:58 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Sun Sep 23, 10:34 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Stuart Henderson, (Mon Sep 24, 3:47 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, patrick keshishian, (Mon Sep 24, 8:01 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, patrick keshishian, (Tue Sep 25, 12:08 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Tue Sep 25, 12:38 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Tue Sep 25, 1:38 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Tue Sep 25, 1:50 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Stuart Henderson, (Tue Sep 25, 2:29 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Tue Sep 25, 3:36 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Stuart Henderson, (Tue Sep 25, 3:56 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, RW, (Tue Sep 25, 4:00 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Tue Sep 25, 4:14 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Tue Sep 25, 4:22 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Tue Sep 25, 4:30 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Tue Sep 25, 4:40 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Chris Smith, (Tue Sep 25, 7:51 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, RW, (Tue Sep 25, 4:04 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, RW, (Tue Sep 25, 4:17 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Tue Sep 25, 5:16 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, RW, (Tue Sep 25, 9:25 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Wed Sep 26, 12:50 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Wed Sep 26, 1:00 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Wed Sep 26, 1:46 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Wed Sep 26, 4:18 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Damien Miller, (Wed Sep 26, 5:45 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Wed Sep 26, 6:27 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Wed Sep 26, 6:41 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Jeremy C. Reed, (Wed Sep 26, 6:51 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Wed Sep 26, 7:02 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Luca Corti, (Wed Sep 26, 7:22 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Wed Sep 26, 7:29 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Wed Sep 26, 7:38 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Wed Sep 26, 7:48 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Wed Sep 26, 7:54 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Wed Sep 26, 8:01 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Dave Anderson, (Wed Sep 26, 8:03 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Stuart Henderson, (Wed Sep 26, 8:23 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Wed Sep 26, 8:26 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Luca Corti, (Wed Sep 26, 8:59 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Luca Corti, (Wed Sep 26, 9:06 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Wed Sep 26, 10:05 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Bob Beck, (Wed Sep 26, 10:22 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Jeremy C. Reed, (Wed Sep 26, 10:48 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Wed Sep 26, 11:13 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Wed Sep 26, 11:16 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Rob, (Wed Sep 26, 2:03 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Hannah Schroeter, (Wed Sep 26, 2:33 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Rob, (Wed Sep 26, 2:51 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Wed Sep 26, 3:17 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, RW, (Wed Sep 26, 3:21 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Eric Johnson, (Thu Sep 27, 2:45 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Juan Miscaro, (Thu Sep 27, 9:36 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Bob Beck, (Thu Sep 27, 10:50 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Kurt Mosiejczuk, (Thu Sep 27, 11:04 am)