Good Morning, Asking if anyone has had experience with internet-research-project.net please? They have no apparent web presence, so no straightforward way to contact them.
Linode hosts this allegedly legitimate security researcher, and my mail systems logs are full of connections from a large number of IPs like "cloud-scanner-17c84c24.internet-research-project.net" where the server just drops the connection without attempting authentication. Looks like a port probe. I opened up a support case with Linode; they said their Trust & Security team feels their customer is doing legitimate security research. I responded that I thought it was a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (as amended), as we have never authorized any third party to access our systems for anything other than sending legal email to our customers. Linode said if I gave Linode all of my servers' IP addresses, they would pass them on to internet-reserach-project.net with a request that they not probe my IPs any longer (I declined). I responded asking for all of the IPs internet-research-project.net uses so I can block them on my firewall (Linode declined). So before I start blocking all of the Linode networks from which this traffic originates, I thought I should ask here to see if anyone else has had experience with this internet-research-project.net organization. I used to host at Linode. I thought they were pretty good a few years ago, with great customer service and solid hosting at the time. Any insights/suggestions/etc. are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Mark _________________________________________________________________ L. Mark Stone, Founder Mission Critical Email LLC North America's Leading Zimbra VAR/BSP/Training Partner For Companies With Mission-Critical Email Needs _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
