[34133] in bugtraq
Re: spamblocker turns into mail denial of service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Fuhrman)
Mon Mar 15 14:29:50 2004
From: Chris Fuhrman <chris.fuhrman@tfcci.com>
To: Dana Hudes <dhudes@tcp-ip.info>
Cc: bugtraq <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>, hostmaster@monkeys.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403151116450.3641@screamer.tcp-ip.info>
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:45:29 -0500
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Howdy,
The Monkeys.com blacklist was officially retired 9/22 due to repeated
DDoS attacks on it's main servers.
Please see http://www.dnsbl.info/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3D12 for the
official closing announcement from Ron Guilmette.
Cheers!
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 11:21, Dana Hudes wrote:
> At some point in the last 24 hours the dns-based blackhole list
> proxies.relays.monkies.com turned into a deny-all-mail: the A record
> for the blackhole list is now 127.0.0.2 which means all mail is rejected.
> Anyone who knows anyone who was using this should immediately remove
> it. I do not know why the folks at infinite monkeys would do this nasty
> thing, perhaps it was done by a spammer hacking in.
>=20
> Certainly it points out that all such services should be using DNSSEC
> and that perhaps that's not enough if the name server is hacked.
--=20
Chris Fuhrman | Twenty First Century Communications
chris.fuhrman@tfcci.com | Senior Software Engineer
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