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Re: RBL-type BGP service for known rogue networks?

  • From: Dan Hollis
  • Date: Thu Jul 06 17:23:36 2000

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 [email protected] wrote:
> The biggest problem is that it's a lot easier to verify that a given site
> is a spamhaus.  Remember that source IP addresses (which is all that your
> border router sees) are forgeable - making for a nice DOS attack.  Forge
> packets from a competitor's site, get them labelled as a skriptz kiddie site,
> and BGP-blackholed.

There are ways of confirming, and they wouldnt be blackholed unless it was
confirmed. I know the issues with forged source IPs and the blackhole list
would take that into account.

-Dan