[8520] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SNMP probers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Wed Apr 9 12:36:53 1997
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 08:58:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0wEyMU-000IUoC@roam.psg.com>
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Randy Bush wrote:
> So every day some poor NOC person has to search these folk down with the
> great tools we have, send email, get told they're nazi idiots, ...
>
> So what do folk do about this?
Design a Go-Away MIB, register it with IANA, convince equipment vendors to
support the MIB such that there is a filter table of allowed addresses for
SNMP queries and anyone not on that list gets the Go-Away MIB. The MIB
just needs a String that says Go Away (or your choice of message) and
a few other items that return random numbers.
Or someone could do a Tony Bates impression and collect the naughty SNMP
prober data from various providers and post a weekly hall of shame report
to this list. If there are a significant number of non-providers then this
list could also be posted on a USENET snmp group and on a web page.
Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
