[asterisk-users] Being attacked by an Amazon EC2 ...

[Randy R]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:49 PM, --[ UxBoD ]-- <uxbod at splatnix.net> wrote:
> Slammed again last night by a A-WS server; see if anything comes back from their abuse > department!

FWIW, I chose another provider for our most recent customer who needed
cloud hosting, only because of the EC2 flood Attacks and Amazon's weak
defense and lack of cooperation. All they have done so far is PR spin.
We need them to actually do something. In the meantime, they've lost
my business and I hope others are voting with their feet.

I also had an interesting discussion with one of the people behind
http://projecthoneypot.org who said they'd be interested in working
with us on devising a lookup scheme like the one they've been using
for comment spammers, etc. I can tell you from first hand experience
that their DNSBL has saved me hours and avoids 95% of the comment spam
we were getting before I wrote a simple function to access PHP's
database.

As soon as I return from China, I will get back in touch with them and
we should set up a meeting with everyone who is concerned by this EC2
abuse thing. I think we can do some good work together;

An interesting sidenote to Projet HoneyPot is that the site is down
because of a disk failure. But the interesting note is that it is a
SSD! So much for no moving parts being more reliable!

/r