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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Another DNS blacklist is taken down
Great, Just Great. Wasn't there a post a while back that listed what providers are SPAM friendly? My fingers are getting tired trying to create ACL's lists to block ranges of IP's without compromising my service. I wish the power's up above would buy the right software to try and curb the SPAM but that is not to be according to them. So back to my ACL's I go! ---------------------------------------------- Joel Perez <[email protected]> | IP Engineer http://www.ntera.net/ | Ntera 305.914.3412 >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Justin Shore [mailto:[email protected]] >>Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:29 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Another DNS blacklist is taken down >> >> >>I thought ya'll might be interested to hear that yet another DNS blacklist >>has been taken down out of fear of the DDoS attacks that took down >>Osirusoft, Monkeys.com, and the OpenRBL. Blackholes.compu.net suffered a >>joe-job earlier this week. Apparently the joe-jobbing was enough to >>convince some extremely ignorant mail admins that Compu.net is spamming >>and blocked mail from compu.net. Compu.net has also seen the effects of >>DDoS attacks on other DNS blacklist maintainers. They've decided that the >>risk to their actual business is too great and they are pulling the plug >>on their DNS blacklist before they come under the gun by spammers. >> >>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF- >>8&selm=3f70e839%241%40dimaggio.newszilla.com >> >>Ron Guilmette, maintainer of the Monkeys.com blacklists has posted a >>farewell from Monkeys.com to news.admin.net-abuse.email. Ron cites the >>total lack of interest in the attacks by both big network providers and >>law enforcement authorities as the ultimate reason he's pulling the plug. >> >>http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22Now+retired+from+spam+fighting%22 &hl= >>en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=vn1lufn8h6r38%40corp.supernews.com&rnum= 4 >> >>It's truely a sad day for spam fighters everywhere. >> >>So, my question for NANOG is how does one go about attracting the >>attention of law enforcement when your network is under attack? How does >>the target of such an attack get a large network provider who's customers >>are part of the attack to pay attention? Is media attention the only way >>to pressure a response from either group? These DDoS attacks have >>received some attention in mainstream media: >> >>http://www.msnbc.com/news/959094.asp?0cv=TB10 >>http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/08/28/saboteurs_hit_sp ams_ >>blockers >> >>Apparently it hasn't been enough. Legal remedies take too long and are >>cost prohibitive (unless you're the DoJ). Subpoenas and civil lawsuits >>take months if not years. Relief is needed in days if not hours. >> >>Justin
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