Thanks Jarland for your reply. We run a commercial multi-tenant email hosting service so tightening the screws down as much as you suggest is not possible.
To my original question though... Do you have any experience with internet-research-project.net? All the best, Mark _________________________________________________________________ L. Mark Stone, Founder North America's Leading Zimbra VAR/BSP/Training Partner For Companies With Mission-Critical Email Needs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jarland Donnell via mailop" <[email protected]> To: "mailop" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 12:33:38 PM Subject: Re: [mailop] Internet Research Project on Linode - Any Experience? Isn't that a bit of an overreaction? If you didn't want any undesirable traffic you'd whitelist IPs in your firewall or run it on LAN. It's a very standard expectation that other servers will hit yours without your consent on the public internet. On 2022-05-06 11:16, L. Mark Stone via mailop wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
