Issues with the Phishing Updates

Matt Hampton matt.hampton.uk at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 14:43:31 GMT 2012


We are now up to about 95% of pre incident levels.  ...

On 9 March 2012 14:25, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Beat you to it in the end, but thanks for the confirmation, that's pretty
> much what I wrote!
>
> Both cdn.mailscanner.info and www.mailscanner.tv should be working now. You
> can use either.
>
> If your update_bad_phishing_sites complains that it can't download things
> from www.mailscanner.tv, update your Perl "LWP" package either using
> RPMForge (or similar), or CPAN with
>    perl -MCPAN -e shell
>    install LWP
>
> Phew! Glad that's all behind us now (he says, hoping madly....)
>
> Cheers!
> Jules.
>
>
> On 09/03/2012 00:29, Jeremy McSpadden wrote:
>>
>> Options +FollowSymLinks
>> RewriteEngine on
>> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mailscanner\.info
>> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mailscanner.info/$1 [R=permanent,L]
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jeremy McSpadden
>>
>> On Mar 8, 2012, at 6:25 PM, "Jules Field"<jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk>  wrote:
>>
>>> Brilliant news Matt, many thanks.
>>>
>>> I'll try to get a redirector on www.mailscanner.tv first thing tomorrow.
>>> If someone wants to mail me a .htaccess file that will do the job before
>>> then, it will speed things up a lot as I still have to look up that sort of
>>> stuff.
>>>
>>> Thankyou all for your patience.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jules
>>>
>>> On 8 Mar 2012, at 08:14 PM, Matt Hampton<matt.hampton.uk at gmail.com>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK,
>>>>
>>>> They have re-inserted the zone file and it should be fully propagated
>>>> within 2 hours.
>>>>
>>>> This will get cdn.mailscanner.info working again - haven't been able
>>>> to get them to re-instate www.mailscanner.tv.  They have changed their
>>>> policy regarding using the "www" prefix on domains hosted on the CDN.
>>>> I had to decomission www to get cdn.mailscanner.info to work.
>>>>
>>>> Ho hum...
>>>>
>>>> matt
>>>>
>>>> On 8 March 2012 18:42, Matt Hampton<matt.hampton.uk at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have pushed for an update. No news yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like it is an issue with the zone propagating to the DNS servers
>>>>> and
>>>>> is an issue with the backend
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 8, 2012 4:07 PM, "Philip Parsons"<pparsons at techeez.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any word on this Matt ?  It is still not working that I can see.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>>>>>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Matt
>>>>>> Hampton
>>>>>> Sent: March-08-12 12:51 AM
>>>>>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info; Jules Field
>>>>>> Subject: Issues with the Phishing Updates
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For some reason the CDN provider has removed the CNAME from the DNS
>>>>>> servers.  I have a ticket raised with them to get the issue addressed
>>>>>> asap.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Matt
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