[74639] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: short Botnet list and Cashing in on DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexei Roudnev)
Sat Oct 9 15:09:28 2004
From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
To: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>, "Gadi Evron" <ge@linuxbox.org>
Cc: "Paul Vixie" <vixie@vix.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 12:08:45 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
If my ISP block port 25, I'll change ISP next day.
But if it will be _configurable_ (blocked by default, but I can change
setting by simple openimng web page and select checkbox) - why not.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Gadi Evron" <ge@linuxbox.org>
Cc: "Paul Vixie" <vixie@vix.com>; <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: short Botnet list and Cashing in on DoS
>
> 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
>
