RE: [cobalt-users] attempted slam

["Eric Arseneau" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Follow-up on this;
> I've got lots of saved logs where someone from "sympatico.ca" has tried to
> get in; plenty of entries where portsentry has dropped their ip into the
> hosts.deny file. But each time they try, they're on a different IP, so
> that's not helping.
> Tonight I dropped sympatico.ca itself into the hosts.deny file. I didn't
> know I could do it like that, was just trying on the off-chance it would
> work. (I thought I had to have an entire IP.)
> Hopefully it will work. Keeping my fingers crossed.

I would point out that Sympatico is the ISP arm of Bell Canada, which
includes dial up, DSL and some cable modem users, and it looks like they are
linked with Lycos now.  Blocking them symaptico.ca means blocking a LOT of
people, so this may not be a good thing.  You should let
	abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx

I've already sent them an e-mail with the info I've seen so far.