[90774] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Wed Jun 14 00:43:29 2006
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:42:58 -0400
From: Adam Rothschild <asr+nanog@latency.net>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0606140421050.19686@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 2006-06-14-00:23:15, "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com> wrote:
[...]
> I assume that dedicated hosting folks don't just drop machines
> behind a switch on one big flat subnet? That's probably a naive
> assumption though
I've long been a proponent of a per-customer VLAN or L3 interface,
depending on what the topology allows for, but I'm afraid we're in the
minority.
From what I've seen, the overwhelming majority of "dedicated hosters"
do precisely what the article alludes to -- placing hundreds (if not
thousands!) of disparate hosts on the same broadcast domain, with no
safeguards in place to prevent ARP spoofing, IP hijacking, and other
forms of malfeasance...
-a
