[87873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BLS FastAccess internal tech needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Thu Jan 12 23:07:07 2006
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:06:11 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <20060112.195851.1587.15308@webmail05.lax.untd.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Fergie wrote:
>
> RFC2827/BCP38?
>
not exactly... though most likely 2827 would have helped. Our abuse folks
called it 'fantasy mail' ... Spammer signs up for 'fast' link with
someone, uses a farm of juno dial (or netzero or... you get the point)
accounts to make a large number of machines dial out and start sending
email as the dial-up IP out the 'fast' link.
This was painful for a while, radius applied filters fix it now.
> - ferg
>
>
> -- Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> What they're *trying* to do is actually quite sensible, and beats
> spammers trying to do asymmetric routing / source address spoofing
> type stuff
>
> [snip]
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
> ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>
