- NANOG - lists.nanog.org

Postmaster, hostmaster etc....
by McBurnett, Jim 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

All, My company has a large # of "divisions", each with their own domain. Currently we are maintaining hostmaster, webmaster, postmaster, security, and abuse accounts for nearly all domains. After our recent testing of some new spam filtering software, I am really wondering about the operational necessity of all these addresses. (total of about 200 or so) What is truly required? Our IP whois lists where we truly answer problems. But we still review all the others. Our spam software shows 98% of all email to the RFC accounts is spam. So what will we have to deal with if we did discontinue those addresses for all but 1 of our domains. how do some ISP's handle it? You host hundreds or thousands of domains. most with no webmaster etc... does it matter for the "small company" domain? Comments appreciated on or off list... Summary will be posted back to list..... thanks, Jim

7 6

curious
by Scott Stursa 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Two (possibly related?) phenomena: 1. Nothing from NANOG since yesterday. 2. .org TLD names not resolving Maybe a local (to here) problem, but I thought I'd inquire before I start looking into it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott L. Stursa 850/644-2591 Network Security Officer stursa(a)acns.fsu.edu Academic Computing and Network Services Florida State University Modern cyberspace is a deadly, festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as "viruses," "worms," "Trojan horses" and "licensed Microsoft software" that can take over your computer and render it useless. - Dave Barry

3 2

Cox Communications Network/NOC
by Chris Neitzert 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Anyone from Cox Communications Network or NOC on the list? Please contact me directly. Thanks Chris

1 0

The spyware that loved me
by Sean Donelan 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

John Borland, a reporter for CNET News.com, made the mistake of loading some software on a Windows machine and hoping it was possible to restore the trustworthiness of a compromised Windows machine. In the end the CNET IT department took his computer away and re-installed a fresh image. http://news.com.com/2010-1032-5187106.html If even well-informed people do this, and can't fix their systems, what hope is there for the typical Internet user?

2 1

looking for cisco person in regards to completewhois
by william(at)elan.net 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

If there is somebody from Cisco on this list who has been accessing completewhois port 43 whois service with thousands of consequitive queries for last few days (or possibly somebody else from cisco who can lookup in your gateway/firewall logs to see it was) then please contact me for private arrangements if you don't want your 171.70.81.70 (nachinat.cisco.com) ip permanently banned. -- William Leibzon Elan Networks william(a)elan.net

2 1

RE: Postmaster, hostmaster etc....
by McBurnett, Jim 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Summary (in no particular order, well almost ;) 1. Sure do it, We will list you on RFC Ignorant, will you give me your domain list and save me some time? 2. Forward to the holder of the domain, bouncing webmaster and listing contacts on website in reply. 3. All Abuse to go to one account, disable none. 4. Consolidate, consolidate consolidate 5. Webmaster to client, postmaster to support, abuse to abuse with CC to client 6. Drop them, the smart user will do a lookup to the IP owner via whois. 7. RFC 2142 says you should have them. 8. Single accounts and SPAM filter the dickens out of it.. Ok, So this is the result we will work from: ALL Postmaster will go to a single mailbox called postmaster Webmaster will go to IT and remote office staff. Hostmaster like postmaster. Security like postmaster Abuse like postmaster. IP whois update to say other addresses. SPAM filter set to Stun plus 5, With spam summaries sent to staff once daily containing subject line, and from address, and option to view / unspam. Thanks to all that responded..... Later, Jim

1 0

Re: curious
by John Neiberger 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

>> "John Neiberger" <john.neiberger(a)efirstbank.com> 4/12/04 8:51:58 AM >>> > >>>> Scott Stursa <stursa(a)acns.fsu.edu> 4/12/04 8:26:15 AM >>> >> >>Two (possibly related?) phenomena: >> >>1. Nothing from NANOG since yesterday. >> >>2. .org TLD names not resolving > >That's interesting. I hadn't noticed that it was all .org TLD names >that weren't resolving. I was considering posting a question regarding a >problem I had just started to troubleshoot for a coworker where a .org >address wasn't resolving, but the .co.us address that it redirects to >would resolve correctly. Quick followup to my own post. I shouldn't have said that all .org names won't resolve because that doesn't appear to be the case, but it does appear that some are not resolving. Anyone know what's going on? John --

3 2

Re: curious
by John Neiberger 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

>>> Tim Wilde <twilde(a)dyndns.org> 4/12/04 9:00:11 AM >>> >On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, John Neiberger wrote: > >> Quick followup to my own post. I shouldn't have said that all .org >> names won't resolve because that doesn't appear to be the case, but it >> does appear that some are not resolving. >> >> Anyone know what's going on? > >Examples would help... a quick sampling of .orgs seems to show them all >resolving just fine from my perspective on things. Hmm...I'm beginning to wonder if I've jumped the gun a little bit. I saw someone else's post about .org names not resolving and I assumed that there was a greater issue at hand. However, so far the only .org I can't get to resolve is www.boulderprf.org; everything else I've tried so far this morning is actually working. I'll step back under my rock until I get a better idea of what's happening. I haven't had enough caffeine to be very good at troubleshooting on a Monday. :-) Regards, John --

1 0

Re: curious
by John Neiberger 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

>>> Scott Stursa <stursa(a)acns.fsu.edu> 4/12/04 8:26:15 AM >>> > >Two (possibly related?) phenomena: > >1. Nothing from NANOG since yesterday. > >2. .org TLD names not resolving That's interesting. I hadn't noticed that it was all .org TLD names that weren't resolving. I was considering posting a question regarding a problem I had just started to troubleshoot for a coworker where a .org address wasn't resolving, but the .co.us address that it redirects to would resolve correctly. John --

1 0

Re: TTY phone fraud and abuse
by Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

Not a new problem. I got my first Nigerian Scam Deaf Relay Call last May, on my cell phone. I had to listen to them for a minute or two to make sure it wasn't one of my European customers having a network problem, but it was somebody who said they wanted to discuss a business opportunity - on Sunday night of Memorial Day Weekend, so they weren't thinking about the fact that they were calling America. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be procedures for asking the operator to trace the call once it became clear that it really was a Nigerian scammer finding a new and creative way to abuse somebody's resources. [This email is my personal opinion, not AT&T's, but it was really annoying to have them abusing my company's service this way and interfering with legitimate users.] Bill Stewart

1 0