[105432] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas L. Byrnes)
Mon Jun 23 13:46:45 2008
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:45:38 -0700
In-Reply-To: <485FBEA3.6090506@karnaugh.za.net>
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb@byrneit.net>
To: "Colin Alston" <karnaugh@karnaugh.za.net>, "Paul Vixie" <vixie@isc.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
You can easily make IP reputation scale to IPV6 using the APL RRTYPE.
See RFC3123
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Alston [mailto:karnaugh@karnaugh.za.net]=20
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 8:18 AM
> To: Paul Vixie
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation=20
> industry? (Re:Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)
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> On 2008/06/22 06:17 PM Paul Vixie wrote:
> > with EC2, it's game-over for the IP reputation industry
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> Realistically speaking, did you not expect that to be inevitable?
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> As access to the internet increases, the chances of SMTP=20
> scaling to prevent spam decreases. And as IP's become more=20
> numerous and 'chuckable' (so much more so with IPv6 around=20
> the corner), the idea of a blacklist becomes ever more useless.
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> What we need is a new mail protocol.. [But people have been=20
> saying that for decades now]
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