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04-21-2009, 10:52 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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Amazon EC2
Anyone ever use this service? I had an issue with tons of spam being sent to my mail servers from amazon, so I placed an IP ban on the entire Amazon network until the issue was fixed. They replied and said that it was coming from an Amazon EC2 client and that it was handled...made me kind of curious about it.
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04-21-2009, 11:29 PM #2Corporate Member
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How did the rogue EC2 node know what domains you have hosted and therefore what domains to spam? Can you post one of the spam headers? I'm just curious.
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04-22-2009, 02:32 AM #3Disabled
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On their web site should be email for the abuses. Also that is good to check their whois and contact their datacenter.
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04-22-2009, 04:32 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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EC2 is notorious for sending spam. The spammer's VM gets shut down and they basically just start up another one on a new IP in Amazon's range immediately afterwards.
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04-22-2009, 08:53 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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I didn't check the mail logs so I don't know if it was going to all of the domains or not, but I got like 20 emails 5 minutes apart all from different IP's inside of the EC2 network with the same email (just one word different). By the time I got that 20th or so email I was banning the entire Amazon IP range.
PHP Code:From - Mon Apr 20 08:03:43 2009
X-Account-Key: account2
X-UIDL: UID382-1238713474
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:
Return-path: <site3@introduction.com>
Envelope-to: {MYEMAILADDY}
Delivery-date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:04:08 -0500
Received: from ec2-79-125-54-216.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com ([79.125.54.216])
by shelby.deliciahosting.com with smtp (Exim 4.69)
(envelope-from <site3@introduction.com>)
id 1LvtAN-0001uu-KA
for {MYEMAILADDY}; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:04:08 -0500
From: "%CUSTOM_EGREETLOL.com" <site3@introduction.com>
To: {MYEMAILADDY}
Subject: Kim sent you an %CUSTOM_EGREETLOL
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:01:26 +0500
Message-Id: <%CUSTOM_AAMSGID>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000008">
<font face="Tahoma, sans-serif, Verdana">Dear {MYEMAILADDY},%CUSTOM_ZZBR
You were sent a %CUSTOM_EGREETLOL!%CUSTOM_ZZBR
<a href="%CUSTOM_GREETDOMAIN">Click here and press %CUSTOM_RUNZ to view it.</a></font>%CUSTOM_ZZBR
%CUSTOM_LOLRNDTIMES
</body>
</html>
This is what I was more so enquiring about. I've never heard of Amazon's EC2...From what it sounds like it's just free VM's they give away to developers or something?
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04-22-2009, 10:39 AM #8Web Hosting Master
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