At 4:40 PM +0200 4/22/03, Mally Mclane wrote: >Hi, > >--On Monday, April 21, 2003 6:50 PM -0400 Rob Shein ><shotenat_private> wrote: > >>For the last few months our ISP (BT) has apparently been scanning our >>mail servers for open relays, this is happening up to >>12 times a day across both Primary & Secondary mail servers. > >I don't condone this, but this is fairly common practice amongst UK ISPs. > >Regards, > > >Mally Mclane >RIPE NCC - Operations Why the aggressive schedule? For your "commercial" (as in - not end user) IP space, I would think that weekly or monthly should be sufficient. Especailly considering that, as your ISP, they know the IP addresses of your mail servers, I find this to be excessive and would really like to know what they think they are combating. It sounds like another bean counter making technical decisions again. > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training Europe, May 12-15 in >Amsterdam, the world's premier event for IT and network security >experts. The two-day Training features 6 hand-on courses on May >12-13 taught by professionals. The two-day Briefings on May 14-15 >features 24 top speakers with no vendor sales pitches. Deadline for >the best rates is April 25. Register today to ensure your place. >http://www.securityfocus.com/BlackHat-incidents >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Thanks, Ms. Jimi Thompson, CISSP, Rev. "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." -- Thomas Jefferson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training Europe, May 12-15 in Amsterdam, the world's premier event for IT and network security experts. The two-day Training features 6 hand-on courses on May 12-13 taught by professionals. The two-day Briefings on May 14-15 features 24 top speakers with no vendor sales pitches. Deadline for the best rates is April 25. Register today to ensure your place. http://www.securityfocus.com/BlackHat-incidents ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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