Comcast looking for competent SysAdmins?

[Wil McGilvery]

It is not just Comcast (even though they may be and industry leader). Up here in Toronto, several of my customers experienced intermittent connectivity over the past week. Some were on Rogers, some were on Bell and some were on smaller Internet providers. I use Rogers at home and my Internet connection has not gone down, but has been quite a bit slower than normal.

I did some investigation and some of the ISP's I called, indicated that the Sobig Virus, Msblaster and welchia were eating up bandwidth and causing serious headaches. (Of course Rogers and Bell would not admit to anything)

The part that really gets me is that both Rogers and Bell actively block ports like smtp because they want you to upgrade to a business contract, but they can't be bothered to block other ports that cause us all this grief.

If I had an infected machine or an open relay, threaten to suspend my account until the problem is fixed. How hard can it be?


Just an FYI. 

Regards,

Wil McGilvery
Manager
Lynch Digital Media Inc

         

416-744-7949
416-716-3964 (cell)
1-866-314-4678
416-744-0406? FAX
www.LynchDigital.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel at hammershome.com] 
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 9:22 AM
To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org

Its not just spam. I am on comcast and I still log endless code red and
other nasties trying to attack web servers, and almost every originating
IP is from comcast.

Joel
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:12:17PM -0600, Andrew Mathews wrote:
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> As of today's count, Comcast now has 1783 ip addresses that I've
> automatically blocked for being a spam source in the last week. These
> people have got to qualify for the #1 $LUSER and having a totally fscked
> up system. I have NO sympathy for anyone whose email is blocked because
> they use these arseholes for an isp. No, I WON'T accept 800+ spam
> messages a day to receive a couple from legitimate people.
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