SRonan, If only such a standard were feasible :)
-mel beckman > On Apr 29, 2020, at 8:25 AM, "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perhaps some organization of Network Operators should come up with an > objective standard of what constitutes “abuse” and a standard format for > reporting it. > > If only there was such an organization. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 29, 2020, at 11:14 AM, Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Once upon a time, Mukund Sivaraman <[email protected]> said: >>> If an abuse report is incorrect, then it is fair to complain. >> >> The thing is: are 3 failed SSH logins from an IP legitimately "abuse"? >> >> I've typoed IP/FQDN before and gotten an SSH response, and taken several >> tries before I realized my error. Did I actually "abuse" someone's >> server? I didn't get in, and it's hard to say that the server resources >> I used with a few failed tries were anything more than negligible. >> >> I've had users tripped up by fail2ban because they were trying to access >> a server they don't use often and took several tries to get the password >> right or had the wrong SSH key. Should that have triggered an abuse >> email? >> >> -- >> Chris Adams <[email protected]>
