[145919] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: XSServer / Taking down a spam friendly provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolai)
Wed Oct 26 13:39:39 2011
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:35:18 -0500
From: Nicolai <nicolai-nanog@chocolatine.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAPF5age_9ia8NHV_COp4pZB1ZBX2iwbZVpsjb9xyve0tC2zYuQ@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:12:33AM -0400, Chris wrote:
> Before somebody screams the path of least resistance of "just install
> Akismet or (insert spam plugin here)", that type of thinking just
> makes spam even worse because we just keep large, possibly stale,
> databases of IP addresses that may or may not be active spammers and
> does not address the issue.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations
> Examples of the offending IPs are:
> 109.230.216.225
> 109.230.220.34
> 109.230.217.166
> 109.230.220.95
All four addresses are in the Spamhaus sbl-xbl list. It would take ~10
lines of python in your cgi program to work this out.
Nicolai
