[IP] more on Another DNS blacklist is taken down
Delivered-To: dfarber+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:09:37 +0530
From: Udhay Shankar N <udhay@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] Another DNS blacklist is taken down
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: declan@xxxxxxxx
Might this not be another legitimate use for Freenet [1] or Eternity [2]?
What I am imagining here is that a loosely knit group of volunteers
collates and prepares a blacklist, and then publishes this blacklist to
freenet or eternity once a day or so. This would seem to be not vulnerable
to the kind of DDoS described below.
Thoughts from the IP list?
Udhay
[1] http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://www.cypherspace.org/~adam/eternity/
I thought ya'll might be interested to hear that yet another DNS blacklist
has been taken down out of fear of the DDoS attacks that took down
Osirusoft, Monkeys.com, and the OpenRBL. Blackholes.compu.net suffered a
joe-job earlier this week. Apparently the joe-jobbing was enough to
convince some extremely ignorant mail admins that Compu.net is spamming
and blocked mail from compu.net. Compu.net has also seen the effects of
DDoS attacks on other DNS blacklist maintainers. They've decided that the
risk to their actual business is too great and they are pulling the plug
on their DNS blacklist before they come under the gun by spammers.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=3f70e839%241
%40dimaggio.newszilla.com
Ron Guilmette, maintainer of the Monkeys.com blacklists has posted a
farewell from Monkeys.com to news.admin.net-abuse.email. Ron cites the
total lack of interest in the attacks by both big network providers and
law enforcement authorities as the ultimate reason he's pulling the plug.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22Now+retired+from+spam+fighting%22&hl=en&;
lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=vn1lufn8h6r38%40corp.supernews.com&rnum=4
<snip>
--
((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
-------------------------------------
You are subscribed as roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To manage your subscription, go to
http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip
Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/