[63170] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Another DNS blacklist is taken down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Mon Sep 29 13:02:27 2003
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:01:57 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
To: Mike Batchelor <mikebat@tmcs.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1593352249.1064829068@[172.28.63.84]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:51:08AM -0700, Mike Batchelor wrote:
> --On Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:18 PM -0500 Justin Shore
> <listuser@numbnuts.net> wrote:
> >On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Joel Perez wrote:
> >
> >>So back to my ACL's I go!
> >
> >This is one of the most likely things to happen. DNS RBLs are effective.
> > Otherwise spammers wouldn't be targeting them for abuse.
>
> What evidence is there that spammers are the ones doing the DDoS?
There is likely some conjecture here, but aside from the DNS RBLs
that cause collateral damage (ie: blacklisting large chunks
of address space to cause behaviour change) who has something to gain
from these dnsbl's going down?
- Jared
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