[62934] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Another DNS blacklist is taken down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew2@one.net)
Wed Sep 24 13:36:25 2003
From: <andrew2@one.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:35:08 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20030924094900.T8743@rockstar.stealthgeeks.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> > So, my question for NANOG is how does one go about attracting the
>> > attention of law enforcement when your network is under attack?
How
>> > does the target of such an attack get a large network provider
who's
>> > customers are part of the attack to pay attention? Is media
>> > attention the only way to pressure a response from either group?
>> > These DDoS attacks have received some attention in mainstream
media:
>>
>> People will pay attention as soon as there is money in black lists.
>> ISP's are businesses. If losing the customer is cheaper than helping
>> them far too many will choose to lose the customer. Many black lists
>> don't pay the ISP at all, indeed they are offered as free services
for
>> the good of the community. As a result they get the response that
any
>> freeloader would, none.
>
>RBLs Sounds like a great application for P2P.
Perhaps, but it also seems like moving an RBL onto a P2P network would
making poisoning the RBL far too easy...
Andrew
