[122685] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spamhaus...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michelle Sullivan)
Fri Feb 19 13:53:28 2010
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:52:14 +0100
From: Michelle Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>
In-reply-to: <87wry99ji9.fsf@nemi.mork.no>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Michelle Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net> writes:
>
>> Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:50:59AM -0800, Crist Clark wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> And I want to know how they figured out we had a Barracuda.
>>>>
>>> It's not that hard, much of the time -- they tend to make
>>> themselves visible via their poor behavior.
>>>
>> Is there some very specific poor behavior you're referring to?
>>
>
> I don't know what Rich referred to, but Barracudas used to be easy to
> spot by backscatter levels:
> http://www.dontbouncespam.org/#barracuda
>
>
Yes that was what Rich was referring to, however, that I suspect is not
what Spamhaus are doing.
Regards,
Michelle
