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Re: amazonaws.com?

  • From: Chris Stone
  • Date: Fri May 23 20:13:05 2008

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Patrick Clochesy wrote:
> EC2 is a pay-per-cycle service, where you can run your work on their
> servers. Probably one of their clients. Try [email protected]?
> 
> -Patrick
> 
> On May 23, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Barry Shein <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Is it just us or does someone pWn *.amazonaws.com?
>>
>> Every one of our mail servers is being slammed by I'm not sure what
>> but many thousands of user unknowns per hour (fortunately we handle
>> those pretty quickly but this is a deluge.)
>>
>> All I know is "amazonaws.com" is "Amazon Web Services", not sure if
>> these particular systems should be sending email at all, the hostnames
>> look like:
>>


Send to [email protected] - amazonaws.com has no MX:

[[email protected] ~]$ host -tmx amazonaws.com
amazonaws.com has no MX record



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Chris Stone, MCSE
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AxisInternet, Inc.
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