-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/14/13 3:05 AM, René Gallati wrote: >>> Folks, I've done some research about this on the jabber.org >>> service. As a result, I have contacted the abuse team at the >>> ISP from which the spam originated. I will report further once >>> I know more. >> >> Oh, let me guess... limestonenetworks? >> >> I'll send them a mail, too. >> >> Peter >> > > Sorry for replying to the lists' digest. > > I took over management of swissjabber.org and I noticed a huge > amount of concurrent connections just the other day. In one case > there were more than 2000 connections open from the same source. > I'm kind of glad that the spammers are rather obvious to find and > I've since blocked the IPs by the firewall and looked for others. > > Up to now I have 8 IPs banned by the firewall; all of these > originate from limestonenetworks. I've sent them an abuse message > yesterday but have not heard back. > > If you're interested, here's the list of the IPs I banned: > > 208.115.229.162 208.115.210.114 69.162.85.98 69.162.69.74 > 69.162.121.154 69.162.122.34 69.162.96.178 74.63.201.2
Thanks for the report. I am indeed seeing some activity from those addresses at the jabber.org service, seemingly related to the spammy invites. We'll get to the bottom of this and shut this person down. :-) Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRHQ7OAAoJEOoGpJErxa2pxwIP/0oXicrN7D/4imD20/nT3gDd P3U0QWbMMiUq6yCxvZMfpex7BEdfdT6shHYkQiQaK0L1cCSdhh3o/fQI9Cg8+l1f 5gu/z7nwrtQqLViCcHkXHFAYRzStgEaaxz0nVWYmtYXC9F5rNnm1Zo7WIwJ4UVdE DMZ35KCtDmutrL8hnf8Yj5NIVAs3akIeXSF794zL9v+ZDr+6YJBheu9dUd9e9btU 1AuilpyG6oSLKfHHHjdY4TvPVatXjIFxzJZtFsHwJBbX1ZUK243BhpTQh4cV7pN1 m2fWn8I/BCn8G8wKLHVhSll6lc9G13jSK0BCFXhkKm0Fdd9RK6RRXZrVT0OVh7XD Ixfe/4yJInVao8eJUguTYPE38WdQBsJhZPHE+GW7WYxjH/G/XaT6YDdZ7efXp+3i ZDK1Rmmmzeb/e1x0Qcy++mSe6L7fHlciHEoqyrHEtfo76CF6KdL11FFkkQE8r8jv Ft2mXQi5FQGFIcaFncDmledtFyj3aR3cbIcqp6pOjWGa0XCtN4x9Og7UoBVzRQLA SsCsKE8x6+3TwX6uy/G0H9o3BlMpl4EjEsgDpMlsH6XaHKWW6xstJRjA4639THXi U87hmwdWDee65LSO32c6pj9+RcaPTl8MNa/m/2LoQQYfU/AwXMKrtey6HVIAJrg6 32GtbBAW6/uk+1a+fXNd =vQUM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
