[74632] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: short Botnet list and Cashing in on DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sat Oct 9 14:14:38 2004
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 21:13:49 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <416809A8.4000801@linuxbox.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Gadi Evron wrote:
>
> 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.
Blocking ports one by one and filling the Internet by application level
proxies (SMTP gateways for port 25) is not a road worth travelling.
Pete
