swinog January 2013

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by Michele Capobianco

Hey all A friend just told me that Cybernet told him there is a Switzerlandwide Internet Problem. Does anybody know something? Cheers Michele -------- Online Consulting AG, Michele Capobianco, System Administrator, Weststrasse 38, CH-9500 Wil Phone +41 (0)71 913 31 31, Fax +41 (0)71 913 31 32 http://www.online.ch, michele.capobianco(a)online.ch<mailto:michele.capobianco@online.ch> --------

2 months, 1 week

Lost connection with MTA of Yahoo

by Jonathan Jeanneret

Hello, Since a few weeks, we've a problem when we send e-mail to MTA of Yahoo (yahoo.com or yahoo.fr) The log in our postfix server are: Jan 25 09:27:37 emailfrontal1 postfix/error[12384]: 19128F857F: to=<patrickjallut(a)yahoo.fr>, relay=none, delay=164344, delays=164344/0/0/0.03, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: lost connection with mx-eu.mail.am0.yahoodns.net[77.238.184.241] while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once) Jan 25 09:28:00 emailfrontal1 postfix/smtp[12670]: DAC59F88F9: to=<bzwahlenmattei(a)yahoo.com>, relay=mta5.am0.yahoodns.net[66.94.237.139]:25, delay=260738, delays=260715/0.01/12/11, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (lost connection with mta5.am0.yahoodns.net[66.94.237.139] while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once) When we try a telnet connection it works but the sessions is closed after 5 sec: telnet mx-eu.mail.am0.yahoodns.net 25 Trying 77.238.184.241... Connected to mx-eu.mail.am0.yahoodns.net (77.238.184.241). Escape character is '^]'. 220 ********************************************************* We don't see any packet loss between yahoo and us. Is anyone have seen this problem? Can someone from Yahoo contact me offlist? Thanks for your help. Regards Jonathan -- Jonathan Jeanneret IP Systems Engineer Service Industriels Lausanne Citycable - www.citycable.ch jonathan.jeanneret(a)citycable.ch Phone: +41 21 315 96 40 Mobile: +41 79 506 28 57

10 years, 7 months

Swisscom / Bluewin SMTP Servers changed?

by Jean-Pierre Schwickerath

Hi guys I get reports from customers sending their outgoing mail through smtp.swisscomdata.ch stating their mail is bounce due to SPF violation. It seems the IPs of the mailservers processing those messages have changed recently. Is there anyone from Swisscom mailserver team who could provide me with a list of IP of outgoing SMTP servers used to relay mail sent to smtp.swisscomdata.ch? It appears that IP ranges 46.14.34.0/24 and 46.14.97.0/24 are involved. I'd like to update the SPF declarations for those customers... Cheers Jean-Pierre -- HILOTEC Engineering + Consulting AG - Langnau im Emmental Energietechnik und Datensysteme: Server, PCs, Linux, Telefonanlagen, VOIP, Hosting, Datenbanken, Entwicklung, Komplettlösungen für KMUs Tel: +41 34 402 74 00 - http://www.hilotec.com/

10 years, 7 months

SwiNOG-BE117 - Beer Event 117 @ Rolli's Steakhouse, Kloten / ZH

by Steven Glogger

Dear SwiNOGers, So, after having fondue last time - almost vegetarian - , we need to compansate some meat-requirements... steak time! Details for the next event: ----------------------------------------------- Event: SwiNOG-BE117 - Beer Event 117 When? Monday, 4th February 2013 18:30 Where? Rolli's Steakhouse, Kloten Gerbegasse 9, 8302 Kloten http://www.rollis-steakhouse.ch (GoogleMaps Link: http://goo.gl/maps/XouXp) !! Please sign up if you're really coming - because the seats are limited! !! ----------------------------------------------- Registration: Start: Monday, 28th January 2013 - 18:00 Stop: Sunday, 3rd February 2013 - 12:00 Reg-URL: http://swinog.be/ ----------------------------------------------- Since we have to make reservations, I need to know who's coming and who not. If you can't attend and you're registered please inform me ASAP (+41 79 277 92 35). greetings -Steven

10 years, 7 months

Re: [swinog] Outbound Spam Filtering

by Gregory Agerba

Hi Jeroen, Let's not start this email security discussion by being focused on the bottom line or by being cynical and say some network will not care. We all know that out there, that shouldn’t stop legitimate providers from getting their act together. Let’s keep rational and positive. Personally, I have enough resources available for protecting my network regardless of a technology or a vendor, so I do not want to take the problem by assuming how much money do I have to put on the table. The thing is, relying on a proprietary (fictional) protection appliance which filters SMTP at will, based on unknown decisions factors is probably not the way to solve issues and is probably not future-proof as the spammers tend to have a few smartass and they have their own ecosystems for acquiring new spam technology. However, if some do work brilliantly, with very little false-negative/false-positive overheads, why not give them a chance. Getting back to the business, let me describe the goal of my previous message and the current deployments we have to cover such problems. I do not talk about DPI deployment and I am solely trying to solve abused-SMTP usage. The ultimate goal here is to protect IP reputation of servers. I do not want to filter dial-in, DSL, 3G network, but a Hosting network where the SMTP server will accept authentified customers to send their emails as long as they have proper credentials. Let me describe what I call a spam in this case, because the word spam holds multiple definitions and multiple usages and hardly get everybody to agree on its meaning. To me a spam is a message which is unsolicited, by opposition to a one-to-one, one-to-many or a newsletter communications, which may or may not be wanted by the recipients, but assuming the double opt-in was done correctly, this is different and it requires administrative handling rather than technical handling. In my case, I refer to customers who get their accounts compromised (either POP/IMAP and SMTP) in their email clients such as Outlook, Thunderbird or their Web Account (FTP, HTTP) with either some malicious piece of code on their computers or compromised self-made or well-known un-updated, compromised CMS such as Joomla or home-made poorly programmed scripts. We have two types of customers. Professional customers who know what they are doing. This kind of customer has no outgoing spam issue. They add a specific tag to their outgoing email, their emails are relayed to a smarthost which strips the header and do a few tricks such as DKIM signing and ultimately relay the message into the Internet. We can assume they send clean emails, unless somebody don’t want to receive them, but we handle this by Feedback Loop and that happens with a ratio of 1:200000. In addition, these customers usually have good security measures in place and we rarely see Trojan-infected hosts within their network. For the latter, we rate-limit the number of email they can send per hour (on some hosts) we look at the type of return we get in the incoming logs and we correlate sudden bursts of outbound message and NDR. Often we can quickly workout compromised accounts and we can identify the script, by looking at the source URI of the script or the SMTP- authenticated account which we reset the password and call the customer or wait for the call. This is usually not a rocket science and it requires a lot babysitting and don’t always prevent the arm of the being RBL. It is actually way harder to protect regular, simple, customer sending an email with his email client than protecting scripts and mass-mailing customers. Now anybody who dealt with an Outgoing Spam attack have seen that spammers are not always subtle and they just try to flood any address usually within aol, gmail and hotmail with low-quality spam to help solve impotence. Shall we just provide free blue pills to just solve the issue, or are they cheaper ways to get these behaviours to trigger some mechanism that pause/drop and give a chance to resume the mailing or just drop it dead? I am not against a system which is not perfect but which can be influenced by the administrators to not reproduce mistakes. Maybe somebody has more insights to share at this point. If somebody does, they are welcome most welcome. Cheers, Gregory On 25 January 2013 12:08, Jeroen Massar <jeroen(a)massar.ch> wrote: > On 2013-01-25 11:47, Gregory Agerba wrote: > > > > Hi everybody, > > > > > > This is a call to all ISPs and Hosters which operates shared or > > private environments where outbound spam is an issue. > > > > > > > > My goal here is not to collect selfishly as many possibilities for > > myself, but to collect them and see how they can be tested, > > implemented and documented to effectively (try to) eradicate spam. If > > they tend to work better than the one I am currently working on, I > > will put together a small presentation and share the outcome. > > Maybe the best first question is then: what are you working on? > > The next question are: > - how much money do you have to burn? > - what type of network do are you looking at? > DSL / Cable / GPRS/UMTS/EDGE / etc > do devices get static IPs / dynamic IPs / NAT/CGN? > do you have logs of which IP is at which customer etc > - how do you keep in contact with your customers/users? > - what are your other constraints? > > > Everybody wants to shift the spam outside of his network > > I think you mean that you want to not want to allow spam to go outside > of your network and that you want to catch it before it leaves? > > > > and everybody knows it is easier to filter inbound spam. > > Why? Spam is spam, if you can filter it outbound you can filter it > inbound. The only thing you need to do for outbound is to force > everything through the filter and that is where the nastyness comes. > > Instead of filtering you could also have a proper and quick abuse setup, > hence the "how do you keep in contact" above. > > > It is in the interest of > > all networks and the public to effectively work and implement these > > solutions. > > Unfortunately that is where a major problem lies: not all networks care. > > There are lots of networks that do not care at all, they get paid and > that is what they care about. > > Also, the larger your operation (eg, think the size of a > Cablecom/Swisscom) the more costly it is to stop and resolve spam from > leaving your network, either because one has to force those customers > through a filter/rate-limit setup or because contacting them all is costly. > > Note that are residential ISPs who set up walled-garden approaches, thus > at first strike mail the customer, second strike call the customer, > third strike put them in a walled garden so they get a nice webpage > telling them how bad they are. > > But depending on the contract they have you might not be able to pull > that off, also VoIP can be an issue when you block them that way. > > Oh, and when you force them through a SMTP filter it is very nice to > actually tell that to your customers, something that for instance > Swisscom still has not done and it is still impossible to find that they > are do, there is www.swisscom.ch/p25/ but that contains no details > whatsoever nor have they actually informed customers that they where > changing their internet connectivity to a filtered type. > > Let alone wondering what the heck they imply with > > "Aside from the spam filter for all Bluewin e-mail accounts, Swisscom > has started operating an additional spam filter on the DSL network. This > filter now also checks e-mail from free e-mail providers such as GMX, > Google Mail and Hotmail if the e-mail is sent from a Swisscom connection." > > Does that mean they sniff port 80 and 443 too so they can filter > GMX/Gmail/Hotmail or do they just mean port 25 (likely, but not sure) > > "As a result of the introduction of the new spam filter, e-mail that is > sent with SMTP authentication via port 25 can no longer be sent." > > Intercepting IP traffic is such a bad precedence for an ISP (because, > then they can also do that to other ports/protocols/IPs etc) and the > question of course also still is if that is even LEGAL in Switzerland... > > > > At the end of the research, I will get in touch with every contributor > > which had a concept, an idea or a working solution and see if and how > > they want to be credited within the document. To avoid useless noise, > > I will suggest sending me your suggestions off-list. > > It would be nice if you would start with explaining what you already > have, as then people can add to that. > > Greets, > Jeroen > > >

10 years, 8 months

Outbound Spam Filtering

by Gregory Agerba

Hi everybody, This is a call to all ISPs and Hosters which operates shared or private environments where outbound spam is an issue. My goal here is not to collect selfishly as many possibilities for myself, but to collect them and see how they can be tested, implemented and documented to effectively (try to) eradicate spam. If they tend to work better than the one I am currently working on, I will put together a small presentation and share the outcome. Everybody wants to shift the spam outside of his network and everybody knows it is easier to filter inbound spam. It is in the interest of all networks and the public to effectively work and implement these solutions. At the end of the research, I will get in touch with every contributor which had a concept, an idea or a working solution and see if and how they want to be credited within the document. To avoid useless noise, I will suggest sending me your suggestions off-list. Cheers,- Gregory

10 years, 8 months

SwiNOG-BE116 - Beer Event 116 @ Restaurant Walliser Keller / ZH

by Steven Glogger

Dear SwiNOGers, It's fondue time @ SwiNOG! Lets start the year with something really swiss :) Detals for the next event: ----------------------------------------------- Event: SwiNOG-BE116 - Beer Event 116 When? Monday, 14th January 2013 18:30 Where? Restaurant Walliser Keller Zähringerstrasse 21, 8001 Zürich http://www.walliser-keller.ch (GoogleMaps Link: http://goo.gl/maps/3RxhG) !! Please sign up if you're really coming - because the seats are limited! !! ----------------------------------------------- Registration: Start: Wednesday, 9th January 2013 - 02:00 Stop: Sunday, 13th January 2013 - 12:00 Reg-URL: http://swinog.be/ ----------------------------------------------- Since we have to make reservations, I need to know who's coming and who not. If you can't attend and you're registered please inform me ASAP (+41 79 277 92 35). greetings Steven Glogger ps: drop me an email in case the registration is not working... it's new :)

10 years, 8 months

Sun Fire V20z

by Adrian Wiesmann

Hi list I am giving away two Sun Fire V20z AMD Opteron based 1HU servers with different configurations both with slide rails. First come first served, although I prefer to give them to hackerspaces, OSS projects, you get it. Contact me off-list for details. Cheers, Adrian

10 years, 8 months

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