On 10 Aug 2011, at 10:54, Frank Gadegast wrote:
Just an example: we filed a report at the usual abuse address of a bigger server housing provider in Germany arround 3 weeks ago , that one of their servers seemed to be captured and started to guess passwords on some of our POP3 servers.
Now: after 3 weeks, be received a note, that our report will now be analysed.
Whats about all those spam, all those DDoS attacks, pishing sites, whatever abuse, this server was causing the last 3 weeks to others ? And: just fiddled with our firewalls and can see, that this server is still trying to attack us !
Frank So why don't you blackhole their network? You cannot force anyone to respond to abuse reports and you cannot force anyone to act on them either. All you can hope to do is educate people so that: - providers believe it's in their interest to act - buyers choose vendors (providers) who act I went into this during my presentation in Rome :) Regards Michele Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection ICANN Accredited Registrar http://www.blacknight.com/ http://blog.blacknight.com/ http://blacknight.mobi/ http://mneylon.tel Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 US: 213-233-1612 UK: 0844 484 9361 Locall: 1850 929 929 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Twitter: http://twitter.com/mneylon ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,Ireland Company No.: 370845