[CLUE-Talk] AmericanISP

[Charles Oriez]

At 01:39 PM 1/16/2004 -0700, Charles Oriez wrote:

>At 01:39 PM 1/16/2004 +0000, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
>
>>How many people on this list use AmericanISP?  How soon did you notice 
>>problems
>>getting email?  I couldn't get mine since about 6:30AM on Tuesday, but my
>>sister could still get hers until sometime Wednesday.  I could still send 
>>email
>>for a time, but eventually that stopped too.
>>
>>The ISP wouldn't answer the phone, or respond to voice and email messages.
>>They finally responded last night with the claim that they have  been hit 
>>by an
>>email DOS attack, and that their staff was overwhelmed.  They could have 
>>posted
>>a message on their web page, which has remained accessible throughout.
>>
>>If this was a DOS attack, why could I send email for a while?  Why could my
>>sister get email when I could not?
>
>
>A customer domain on cbeyond.net is reporting problems today. I am 
>attempting to isolate.  Is AmericanISP downstream of Qwest?
>

to follow up my own post:

cbeyond got listed on the sorbs anti-spam dnsbl. the evidence supports the 
listing, so I am not going to criticize sorbs.  unfortunately, my client 
was using sorbs to protect their own desktops from spam.  I whitelisted the 
client's /24 to solve the problem internally, and hit on cbeyond to resolve 
the listing, since other people using sorbs are blocking us too. supposedly 
cbeyond is working on it.




Charles Oriez     coriez at oriez.org
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