At 08:22 6/3/2004, you wrote: >This is a CRAZY idea ! >In a few time you have banned 50% or more of internet traffic ! >alex wrote:
It's actually not a crazy idea, because a very large percentage of the virus traffic on the Internet originates from end-user boxes (machines that were never intended to be mail servers, nor to deliver mail directly to MTAs). A lot of places are already blocking dynamic address machines anyway (I block by RDNS on patterns that tend to indicate end user machines, such as "adsl-99-25-74-211.dsl.blvloh.ameritech.net"). Since these kinds of machines are 1) not intended to deliver mail, and 2) prohibited by their ISP's Terms Of Service or Acceptable Use Policies from running mail servers, there is no reason not to block them. And since these machines account for about 75% of the virus traffic, well, it makes sense to combine them into a DNSBL... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
