RE: RBL-type BGP service for known rogue networks?

[Mark Mentovai <marklist () ggn net>]

Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
> What I was saying is that they had already set up some type of blackhole
> system that I was lead to believe they were doing at the router level (not
> mail system level).  When they had us blackhole, we couldn't get past their
> core routers.  I know your next thougt is that they just threw us into their
> route filter, but my understanding is that they offered a service that you
> subscribed to and the updated the filter on the fly.  Which sounds like it
> would work for what you may be looking for in the "kiddie script network"
> scenario (which I assume means either IRC crapola or DOS crapola in general)
> or those wonderful .ru sites serving out that hardcore kiddie porn stuff via
> cgi calls.

You can play tricks with BGP to do this.  Here's how MAPS RBL does it, and
how you can use it:

http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl/usage.html#BGP

Mark

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