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Re: compromized host list available

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Thu Jul 21 12:48:57 2005

In-Reply-To: <20050721163528.GD609@core.center.osis.gov>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:48:27 -0400
To: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@center.osis.gov>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu



On Jul 21, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Joseph S D Yao wrote:

>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:31:13PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
> ...
>> Unless I'm mistaken (and my first report hasn't arrived yet, so maybe 
>> I
>> am) this is more of a "heads up! the following addresses within your
>> network are listed on DNSBLs" than anything else.
>>
>> I can't see why you'd add a disclaimer to a report like that.
> ...
>
>
> The announcement didn't state the intended use - which, given the
> ingenuity of some, is most reasonable.  But there are those who will
> believe whatever they read, as long as it's in a report, and especially
> if the report is automatically generated.  Must be true, then, eh?  A
> report, eh?  And done by one of them infallible computer dinguses, eh?

I don't see why the reliability/reputation of a dnsbl changes the 
trueness
of "this host is listed in this dnsbl".

That is, I agree with Joe :)



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