[62952] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Another DNS blacklist is taken down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick)
Wed Sep 24 14:53:15 2003
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:40:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Patrick <patrick@stealthgeeks.net>
To: Justin Shore <listuser@numbnuts.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309241304160.19311-100000@bubba.numbnuts.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Justin Shore wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 andrew2@one.net wrote:
>
> > Perhaps, but it also seems like moving an RBL onto a P2P network would
> > making poisoning the RBL far too easy...
>
> That's what I was getting ready to suggest. As it stands now we have at
> least somewhat of an assurance that the zone we're working with isn't
> tainted.
Web of trust, yada yada. Still distributed, still resiliant.
And/Or, encrypt the zones/updates.
Admittedly this is all off-the-cuff and I haven't given it much
thought(scalability and performance issues immediately come to mind,)
but it might be an interesting enough problem to sit down and
research/think about at some point. It certainly would be interesting to
find some more "substantially non-infringing" uses for P2P.
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Patrick Greenwell
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