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Re: ISPs are asked to block yet another port

  • From: Paul Vixie
  • Date: Mon Jun 23 16:22:36 2003 
> Its a sucky world sometimes. Perhaps Paul complained to
> ATT/<other-unnamed-provider> with logs and such? :)

oh yes.  i tried *several* ways to get their attention.  however, this
kind of activity is so common these days that a noc literally has no
choice but to focus their efforts on less common and more damaging
things than relayprobing.  so i was not shocked that they did not
answer me.

> > so if you're going to block tcp/25 SYNs on outbound, please make sure
> > you block SYN/ACK's on input too, or else you just give the spammers a
> > little more work to do instead of a lot more work to do.
> 
> Yup, this is in the works also... and yes, someone realized quickly enough
> that the one-way filtering was dumb. oh well. live and learn!

that's good news, thanks for sharing it.  any schedule for a fix :-) ??