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Re: Clueless anti-virus products/vendors (was Re: Sober)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Sun Dec 4 18:19:07 2005

Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 15:18:29 -0800
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20051204203732.GA19063@gsp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


Rich Kulawiec wrote:

> And thus we now have blacklist entries such as:
> 
> 	barracuda1.aus.texas.net
> 	barracuda.yale-wrexham.ac.uk
> 	barracuda.morro-bay.ca.us
> 	barracuda.ci.mtnview.ca.us
> 	barracuda.elbert.k12.ga.us
> 	barracuda.fort-dodge.k12.ia.us
> 	barracuda.ci.garner.nc.us
> 	barracuda.ship.k12.pa.us
> 
> and many, many more.

Blocking based on rDNS simply because it implies that a certain piece of 
equipment is at that address is... not advisable.

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