[91634] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Wed Aug 9 13:17:38 2006
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:16:44 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Arjan Hulsebos <arjan.hulsebos@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <18ccbaee0608091005n7a947d0aqe6a54d51318330b0@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Arjan Hulsebos wrote:
>
> The ones who've been mugged don't start mugging other people, infected
> PCs will infect other PCs. That's the difference, and that's why an
> ISP should do something about that. Although it may be out of fashion,
> I'd like to see good netizenship.
SPAM as other types of abuse is easiest to control closest to the
source, which in most cases means the consumer ISP providing the local
access for the user.
Pete
