[6bone] Spammers already using 6bone ipv6 addresses?

[Daniel Austin]

I frequently get spammed from people scanning the 6bone registry... not too many over ipv6 though :S


Daniel.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell King" <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: <6bone@ISI.EDU>; <arkley@ibcjapan.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:05 AM
Subject: [6bone] Spammers already using 6bone ipv6 addresses?


> Hi,
> 
> It seems that spammers may have started using IPv6 to spread their wares.
> I've recently had SMTP connection attempts to one of my internal machines
> (flint.arm.linux.org.uk) from 3ffe:0bc0:8000:0000:8000:0000:d582:a322.
> 
> The interesting thing about this is that flint.arm.linux.org.uk has never
> been used as the source of email, but does appear in BitKeeper repositories
> as the host ID part of someone who commits.  (BitKeeper ids contain an
> object which looks a lot like an email address.)
> 
> Maybe someone's running an open relay on 6bone ?
> 
> I'm also copying the person who seems to be the owner of that IPv6 space.
> 
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