Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT)

2003-08-03 Thread David G. Andersen
To add to the eternally annoying list of companies that ignore abuse@ mail... ebay now requires that you fill in their lovely little web form to send them a note. Even if, say, you're trying to let them know about another scam going around that tries to use the machine www.hnstech.co.kr to

clearblue part deux

2003-08-03 Thread John Kinsella
So haven't seen anybody else mention it yet...Clearblue in SFO went off-net for 3ish hours today, again as the result of internal power issues as far as I can tell. Gennys didn't kick in. After gettin my stuff back up, went for a self-guided tour of the facility to find 3 guys gathered around

Re: clearblue part deux

2003-08-03 Thread John Kinsella
Silly me. hadn't caught up on my mail yet. Bastards lost power again around 9:40PM PST. John On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:24:02PM -0700, John Kinsella wrote: So haven't seen anybody else mention it yet...Clearblue in SFO went off-net for 3ish hours today, again as the result of internal

Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT)

2003-08-03 Thread Paul Vixie
... ebay now requires that you fill in their lovely little web form to send them a note. Even if, say, you're trying to let them know about another scam going around that tries to use the machine www.hnstech.co.kr to extract people's credit card information. one can easily imagine that

Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT)

2003-08-03 Thread JC Dill
At 09:41 AM 8/3/2003, Paul Vixie wrote: ... ebay now requires that you fill in their lovely little web form to send them a note. Even if, say, you're trying to let them know about another scam going around that tries to use the machine www.hnstech.co.kr to extract people's credit card

Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT)

2003-08-03 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Vixie) [Sun 03 Aug 2003, 18:42 CEST]: [..] this sounds like i'm defending them. i'm not. but while reprehensible and irresponsible and socially radical, the web form approach's only real cause for failure is when the lack of a useful feedback channel curtails

Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT)

2003-08-03 Thread David Lesher
My bitch about no mail, use this stooopid webform is I then get no file copy in my Out box. You get silence back from them... -- A host is a host from coast to [EMAIL PROTECTED] no one will talk to a host that's close[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't

DOS attack fills input queue?

2003-08-03 Thread Scott Call
One of my FE interfaces was stuttering this morning, and when I checked it out, it had an input queue of 76/75 which of course made me think of the recent Cisco vulnerability, which we have upgraded IOS and added ACLs to counteract. I checked the ACLs and they hadn't caught any traffic from

All UPSes suck (was Re: clearblue part deux)

2003-08-03 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: Sounds like XO in Fremont ... last weekend their one UPS had a leaking capacitor, took out both UPS systems, power was down for at least 1.5 hours. Was really nice to move out of Clear Blue in Santa Clara to arrive in Fremont and being told power was

Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT)

2003-08-03 Thread Gerald
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, David G. Andersen wrote: To add to the eternally annoying list of companies that ignore abuse@ mail... ebay now requires that you fill in their lovely little web form to send them a note. Even if, say, you're trying to let them know about another scam going around that

Re: All UPSes suck (was Re: clearblue part deux)

2003-08-03 Thread David Lesher
Sean: If you put all your servers in one location, you will eventually have a failure. Diversity begins at home. Actually, it begins away -- A host is a host from coast to [EMAIL PROTECTED] no one will talk to a host that's close[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that

Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

2003-08-03 Thread E.B. Dreger
CLM Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 02:45:29 + (GMT) CLM From: Christopher L. Morrow CLM EBD Who should be held accountable for vulnerable boxen? CLM CLM I believe the vendor should, but my opinion matters not :) I agree. It stinks when cutting code, knowing that _some_ competitor is slinging out

Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

2003-08-03 Thread E.B. Dreger
EBD Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 20:06:16 + (GMT) EBD From: E.B. Dreger EBD Sort of like deaggregating routes, helping track down and Ugh. s/helping/not helping/ Eddy -- Brotsman Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone:

Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT)

2003-08-03 Thread JC Dill
At 12:53 PM 8/3/2003, Gerald wrote: I even went to the web page they suggested to try and give them a copy of the msg with full headers and none of their categories at the time matched: Good willed person trying to give you ammunition for a company abusing your name. I gave up, and left it as

Re: The internet is slow

2003-08-03 Thread Chris Woodfield
Didn't most of us just do that a couple weeks ago? -C On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:03:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rebooting the Internet once a month might prevent future problems. Power off, count to ten, then restart...Proactive Management!? Jack pgp0.pgp Description:

Re: Blocking port 135?

2003-08-03 Thread Justin Shore
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Crist Clark wrote: And for this crowd, I should point out that blocking 135/udp blocks DCE-RPC which is used rather heavily by HP OpenView by default. You may hear some shrieks of pain should you chose to block 135/udp. I bidirectionally blocked all NetBIOS ports (tcp

Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT)

2003-08-03 Thread Justin Shore
I submitted ebay.com to rfc-ignorant.org for this RFC violation almost a year ago (which they of course accepted): http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/detail.php?domain=ebay.comsubmitted=1029353643table=abuse Companies like this could simply care less. If you don't run a mail system with

Re: Blocking port 135?

2003-08-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 10:46:54 +0200, Mans Nilsson said: - Inform them that devices found to be broken into will be sent to null0 until proof of cleanliness has been obtained. And then they download the patches how? (This is particularly a problem if the customer is using a NAT to obfuscate