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more on Another DNS blacklist is taken down
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:16:26 -0400
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:09:37 +0530 From: Udhay Shankar N <udhay () pobox com> Subject: Re: [IP] Another DNS blacklist is taken down To: dave () farber net Cc: declan () well com Might this not be another legitimate use for Freenet [1] or Eternity [2]?What I am imagining here is that a loosely knit group of volunteers collates and prepares a blacklist, and then publishes this blacklist to freenet or eternity once a day or so. This would seem to be not vulnerable to the kind of DDoS described below.
Thoughts from the IP list? Udhay [1] http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://www.cypherspace.org/~adam/eternity/
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
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