[63181] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Another DNS blacklist is taken down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Mon Sep 29 13:58:30 2003
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:59:38 -0400
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>,
Dan Armstrong <dan@beanfield.com>
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030929174927.GB11156@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 01:49 PM 29/09/2003, Jared Mauch wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:11:08PM -0400, Dan Armstrong wrote:
> > Isn't that collateral damage issue enough to have angered hundreds of ISPs
> > & end users to the point of not necessarily organizing a DDoS, but ignoring
> > it? I think it is far _more_ likely that the DDoS came from the innocent
> > victims fighting back rather than the spammers.
>
> Presently I beg to differ. (I do encourage you to prove me wrong :)
Especially in the case of SPAMHAUS, they were no XRBL. What networks were
really listed as collateral damage ? I dont see how willtel was an
innocent bystander either in the previous case.
---Mike
