[129425] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP port blocking practice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sun Sep 5 21:39:03 2010
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Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 18:38:50 -0700
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>
Cc: North American Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Franck Martin <franck@genius.com> wrote:
> In many countries, the presence of bots consume a non-trivial amount of
> bandwidth. In developing countries, this is a non trivial amount of $$$
> (http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/1620212/UN-Tech-Group-Finds-Mo
> st-Expensive-Broadband)
>
> Blocking port 25 allows to help identify which hosts are consuming
> bandwidth (likely to have a bot). Identifying and removing these hosts
> from the network is crucial and economically viable, unfortunately these
> are skills sometimes not available in such countries.
>
> Just saying...
>
It looks like Germany is now all aboard a program regarding this:
http://www.cio.com.au/article/359491/germany_launch_antibotnet_program_cons
umers/
FYI,
- - ferg
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