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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Open relays and open proxies
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:20:19 EDT, Jeff Kell said: > If we could somehow blackhole *only* SMTP inbound, that would be ideal, > but I feel that blackholing all IP from/to those sites would be far too > much collateral damage. Unfortunately, for many of these hosts, there's no motivation to fix things until the collateral damage reaches the equivalent of having a live hand grenade stuffed into an appropriate bodily orifice. A lot of these are home systems - and the *quickest* way to get them all fixed would be if the 10 top websites refused to talk to them if they were known open proxies. On my more cynical days, I'd even advocate not worrying about the fact that home systems often have dynamic IP addresses - that provides MORE motivation for the ISP to track down the real offender before they start losing customers.... Attachment:
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