[74631] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: short Botnet list and Cashing in on DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Sat Oct 9 11:53:49 2004
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 17:54:16 +0200
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3acuwrp3t.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Yea, verily. This is not an impossible problem for this community; it is
> only an impossible problem for any one of us acting totally independently.
> And while the solution isn't instant, the tide CAN be turned.
Problem is, we are a fighting a war we already lost. It's put out a fire
here and there, and break a wave while you're at it.
How about seeing some simple measures such as blocking outgoing port 25?
at ISP's? Not a perfect solution, but it's a partial solution for some
of the problems. Combined with other solutions we could start seeing a
change.
Gadi.
