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Re: RBL-type BGP service for known rogue networks?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Stuart)
Sat Jul 8 13:34:33 2000

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To: Peter van Dijk <petervd@vuurwerk.nl>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Jul 2000 19:15:12 +0200."
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Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 10:27:43 -0700
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart@mfnx.net>
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> I see 2 possibilities:
> - MAPS doesn't test if a reported spamhouse is really an open relay, and is
>   therefore susceptible to forgery.
> - MAPS does do open relay testing and therefore performs the same
>   'unsolicited traffic' as ORBS, which would mean they're hypocritic.

testing != probing, so your list of possibilities is incomplete.

Stephen


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