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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [Fwd: FC: Email a RoadRunner address, get scanned by their
[email protected] wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 12:56:30 -0500 > From: "W. Mark Herrick, Jr." <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Your NANOG post > > > That being said, we have, and will continue to have, a severe issue > with so-called 'scanning services', that *proactively* scan IP > addresses (e.g., DSBL), or services that accept requests from > anywhere to perform 'on-demand' scans (e.g., hatcheck.org) without > first requiring (and keeping on hand) proof (e.g., spam-in-hand) that > the IP address is a source of spam, open to third party relay, or has > an open proxy service. > In other words, it's okay for an ISP to scan systems so long as they receive a connection from the system without spam on hand. However, it is not okay for a 3rd party to do the same scan, despite the fact that using a 3rd party limits the number of scans performed by aggregating the results. Considering how much we complain about route aggregation, I'd think scan aggregation would have a higher interest. FireDaemon is becoming pretty popular after all. -- -Jack
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