RE: [swinog] DNS maintenance ns1.tiscali.ch / ns2.tiscali.ch

2004-12-15 Thread Fabian Uebersax
 Did you try:
 
 $ dig +short tiscali.ch soa
 ns1.tiscali.ch. hostmaster.ch.tiscali.com. 2004121302 10800 
 3600 604800
 86400
 
 That one too ?


Evidently not, otherwise I would have received it :-

- Fabian

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RE: [swinog] Mail sent to bluewin hostcenter customers: 451 Exhausted MX records for domain

2004-11-22 Thread Fabian Uebersax
Hello Martin,

 Thanks for any pointers or the phone-number of the bluewin mailadmin.
 Martin

From our experiences [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be able to help you rather 
quickly. That mailbox is read and well maintained.

And yes, we've seen that error too. Looks like some kind of too many 
connections problem to me, probably because of the recent Sobig flood.

cheers,
- Fabian


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RE: [swinog] ns1.ip-plus.net

2004-04-29 Thread Fabian Uebersax
EHLO,

 Did anyone else also noticed that 164.128.36.34 is no longer 
 responding to
 DNS queries from non ip-plus ip-addresses? Maybe, swisscom is 
 trying to save
 some bandwidth...


They're rather trying to prevent Spammers (and other scum) from abusing their DNS 
servers, by disabling recursion for non-trusted hosts.

Have a look at:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/336958/2003-09-06/2003-09-12/0

cheers,
- Fabian

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RE: [swinog] Kassensturz

2004-03-02 Thread Fabian Uebersax
 
 have a look at the filepaths listet below (and put them into your
 webbrowser) .. oops :)
 
 the question is: which door is not closed? 
 

Exactly. With a little bit of 'fantasie' you'll find the mysql user, db name and 
password in clear text.(nice pw, btw). :)

We should really make a story about kassensturz and their idea of 'security'.

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RE: [swinog] Contacts Swissonline / Hispeed

2004-01-29 Thread Fabian Uebersax
EHLO,

 
 Is Cablecom the only target, or other ISPs experienced the 
 same attacks?

We're experiencing such large attacks every few weeks and there's not much you can do 
against it. The attackers use open proxies and infected home pc's to connect to the 
MTAs, each connections only scans for a few RCPT's (10-20). Sometimes we see 900 
simultaneous connections on each MTA from such hosts. One of the largest attacks we 
experienced was in December last year, it lasted about 5 days.

Our MTAs are constantly scanned for valid recipients, but usually only from 50-80 
simultaneous connections per MTA (we're not considering this an 'attack' [anymore]). 
Although we've set a delay of 40 seconds after an invalid RCPT TO: the attackers 
won't give up.

Just to give a little statistic: During the last minute (16:12:00 to 16:12:59) we've 
seen a total 522 invalid RCPT's from 80 different hosts on our MTAs.

Sucks to be an MTA these days :(

cheers,

Fabian Uebersax
System Engineer
Tiscali AG
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RE: [swinog] MX Swissonline Down?

2004-01-21 Thread Fabian Uebersax
EHLO,

 Secondly, what about this:
 
 - Transcript of session follows -
  while talking to mx.hispeed.ch.:
  DATA
  550 5.7.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Fix reverse DNS for 
 217.118.195.58
 or use your ISPs mail server
 
 I have a reverse entry for my 217.xxx ... Any clues?

Hmm, doesn't work for me:

-
# dig -x 217.118.195.58  

;  DiG 9.2.3  -x 217.118.195.58
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 17103
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
-

Well, at least you're able to establish a _connection_ to mx.hispeed.ch :-
Our server IP range was blocked there for days and days but after a gazillion of mails 
and phone calls I finally found a friend of mine whose friend is a friend [...] of 
someone who works at cablecom and happens to be sitting next to the cablecom 
mailserver admin. So finally they added a -j ACCEPT rule for our MTAsduh!

Let's see if I can find out any contact information of that admin

BTW, the following explanations were given to me:

- cablecom applies filters whenever they feel like
- no-one gets informed when a filter is added
- the filter will remain active until the admin of the IP / IP range that was filtered 
contacts cablecom
- they do not read mails sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]/swissonline.ch, quote there are 
simply too many mails coming in there so it's easier to simply /dev/null all of them

sigh!

cheers,
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RE: [swinog] Somebody from Tiscali on this List?

2004-01-20 Thread Fabian Uebersax
 Hi Tiscali :-)

EHLO,


 So could somebody from Tiscali Switzerland please tell them 
 to fix their 
 system or explain to me why they block all my emails?

I'll try to reach someone from Italy, let's see...

cheers,
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