[105443] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Mon Jun 23 20:03:33 2008
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
Date: 24 Jun 2008 00:03:20 +0000
In-Reply-To: <29351.1214252999@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
> One could argue that the "botnets for rent" business model is in more
> widespread use than either EC2 or gridserver...
>
> I'm unclear whether that statement needs a smiley or not...
i'd say that since EC2 won't be shut down when it's found out about, that
you need a smiley. "widespread use" is too narrow a term. none of us
expects white-hat e-commerce business to move into rented botnets, and
rented botnets aren't all going to be in the same address space or ASN.
--
Paul Vixie
