[120512] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Article on spammers and their infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Wed Dec 23 06:58:13 2009
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:57:22 -0500
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <75cb24520912222258y7bcf198g479b6c34db23ed05@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 01:58:47AM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> no real arguement, but... 'please provide some set of workable solutions'
The set of workable solutions at this point looks something like "null
routes, firewall rules, blacklist entries" -- in order to deny traffic
to and from such locales.
I agree just about entirely with Ferg: the policy angle is a dead end.
The organizations involved are either clueless or entirely focused on
other goals (e.g., profit) at the expense of sound policy.
---Rsk
