amazonaws.com?

Sat May 24 00:12:55 UTC 2008

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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 at 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 at amazon.com - amazonaws.com has no MX:

[cstone at csmdv ~]$ host -tmx amazonaws.com
amazonaws.com has no MX record

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