Unfortunately, a lot of static business DSL IP space is still on
those lists and legitimate mail servers can get blocked. I usually use
the DUL as a white list to negate hits on the traditional dnsbls since
those are almost always stale.
- Mark
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From: [EMAIL
are to a large part) driven by routing efficiency.
- Mark
-Original Message-
From: Steven J. Sobol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 4:40 PM
To: Miller, Mark
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Miller, Mark wrote
How come it is always about controlling the symptoms and not the
illness? The vast majority of these
spam drones are compromised WINDOWS machines. If the operating system
and dominant email applications so easily allows the users' machines to
be taken over by a third party, then there is
Scratch that... Yes, the A record. You are right.
I need coffee or something... :-)
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From: Miller, Mark
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Make love, not spam
Not the A, the PTR... But yes, that could be a nasty
Not the A, the PTR... But yes, that could be a nasty retaliation by
spammers with control of their DNS. I would hope, however, that the
screen saver's target would be an IP address instead of a FQ mnemonic
hostname.
From the article, I understand that Lycos will be manually watching the
Ah, but I said poetic justice. Like for like. I am hearing DDoS
over and over. As I understand it, the application will throttle to
prevent Denial of access. It just causes additional GB to be used and
paid for.
Fraudulent CC use is an entirely different issue...
-m
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Your argument seems to assume a T1 garage operation co-lo that is
perpetually out to lunch. Provided Lycos delivers the restrictions on
bandwidth they are stating, why would it exceed capacity? Come on, kids.
If you can't deliver to begin with, don't sell it.
I am not saying that the proposal
Well-written or not, this piece has a vague odor of blaming the victim
for the crime. To cite the specific example quoted below, if
cash-hungry spam havens like China, Korea and others took action locally
to reduce the spam-friendly nature of many of their online providers,
the filtering
Most DSL providers that hand out static addressing also have the means
to delegate the rDNS. Sounds like it is time to get your own DNS on.
- Mark E. Miller
...it said: Install Windows 2000 or better...so I installed FreeBSD...
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