Re: amazonaws.com?

[Patrick Clochesy <patrick () chegg com>]

EC2 is a pay-per-cycle service, where you can run your work on their  
servers. Probably one of their clients. Try abuse@?

-Patrick

On May 23, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Barry Shein <bzs () world std com> 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:
>
> ec2-67-202-36-134.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-67-202-37-35.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-67-202-37-38.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-67-202-38-112.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-67-202-39-87.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-67-202-8-122.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-72-44-37-77.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-75-101-192-20.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-75-101-202-130.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-75-101-207-190.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-75-101-210-120.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-75-101-224-146.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-75-101-227-187.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-75-101-228-221.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-75-101-229-15.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-75-101-230-147.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-75-101-234-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-75-101-236-135.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-75-101-238-69.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> ec2-75-101-241-105.compute-1.amazonaws.com
>
> Those don't look like mail servers but what do I know?
>
> Anyhow, if there's anyone awake at Amazonaws.com, your hair is on
> fire.
>
>    -b