phishing_bad_sites broken?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Feb 27 15:59:12 GMT 2008


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This is due to a suspected attack on the www.mailscanner.eu site.
I will check with the Blacknight guys to see where we're at and will get 
back to you a.s.a.p.

Jules.

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Julian,
>
> My hourly cronjob to update bad phishing sites has been broken
> for the last day or so:
>
> /opt/MailScanner/bin/update_bad_phishing_sites
> --10:25:27--  http://www.mailscanner.eu/phishing.bad.sites.conf.master
>            => `phishing.bad.sites.conf.master'
> Resolving www.mailscanner.eu... 127.0.0.1
> Connecting to www.mailscanner.eu|127.0.0.1|:80... failed: Connection 
> refused.
>
> Is something broken in DNS land?  This address always resolves
> to loopback here.  Anybody else seeing this?
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College

Jules

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