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Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sat Mar 31 04:27:06 2007

Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:56:06 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3ps6qlzad.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On 31 Mar 2007 06:09:30 +0000, Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com> wrote:
>
> are we really going to stop malware by blackholing its domain names?  if
> so then i've got some phone calls to make.

That does seem to be the single point of failure for these malwares,
and for various other things besides [phish domains hosted on botnets,
and registered on ccTLDs where bureaucracy comes in the way of quick
takedowns]

srs
-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)

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