[61274] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: relays.osirusoft.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woodfield)
Wed Aug 27 13:55:55 2003
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:47:31 -0400
From: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030827173654.GI13439@blank.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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IIRC, it was Ron Guilmette who did this for a BL zone he was operating a lo=
ng time ago,=20
but it happened six months or so after he had deactivated the zone and was =
still=20
getting numerous queries for it. So he reactivated the zone, answering 127.=
0.0.2 for=20
every query, to get those people to stop. He also posted his intentions to =
SPAM-L=20
and NANAE at least a few weeks in advance. Still a BOFHish move, but at lea=
st there was=20
plenty of warning.
-C
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:36:54PM -0400, Nathan J. Mehl wrote:
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> In the immortal words of Richard Welty (rwelty@averillpark.net):
> >=20
> > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:25:46 -0700 (PDT) "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.c=
om> wrote:
> > > returning 127.0.0.2 for everything would be an ugly way to bow out.
> >=20
> > yes, but it's been done before.
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> And oddly enough, it was a terrible idea the first time, and hasn't
> gotten any better in the intervening months. I suppose going down in
> a blaze of glory might be appealing in the sleep-deprived haze of the
> tail end of a multi-week DDOS attack, but PLEASE. Null-route the
> netblock and be done with it. Returning 127.0.0.2 for every query
> does NOTHING but convince more people that volunteer blacklist
> providers like SPEWS are more trouble than they're worth.
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> -n
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.org>
> "Must I pray in Hebrew?" No, and wipe that look of terror off your face.=
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> Fluency in Hebrew, of course, is vital to the proper understanding of Isr=
aeli=20
> truck driver insults. (--David Bader, "How to Be an Extremely Reform =
Jew")
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