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On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: > > > 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, for <unnamed-provider-X> you have a Abuse Ticket number? Perhaps you could send the one you think might apply to me off-list? :) > > > > 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 :-) ?? > I do not know what the timeframe is :( Sorry.
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