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Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:57:26 +0200 (CEST)
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Gadi Evron wrote:
In this case, we speak of a problem with DNS, not sendmail, and not bind.
The argument can be made that you're trying to solve a windows-problem by implementing blocking in DNS.
Next step would be to ask all access providers to block outgoing UDP/53 so people can't use open resolvers or machines set up to act as resolvers for certain DNS information that the botnets need, as per the same analysis that blocking TCP/25 stops spam.
So what you're trying to do is a pure stop-gap measure that won't scale in the long run. Fix the real problem instead of trying to bandaid the symptoms.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
Current thread:
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names, (continued)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Fergie (Mar 30)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Fergie (Mar 30)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Mark Green (Mar 30)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Paul Vixie (Mar 30)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 31)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Adrian Chadd (Mar 31)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 31)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Adrian Chadd (Mar 31)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 31)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Mark Green (Mar 30)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Gadi Evron (Mar 31)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Mikael Abrahamsson (Mar 31)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Gadi Evron (Mar 31)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Peter Dambier (Mar 31)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Kradorex Xeron (Mar 31)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Stephen Satchell (Mar 31)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Douglas Otis (Mar 31)
- RE: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Frank Bulk (Mar 31)
- RE: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Douglas Otis (Mar 31)
- RE: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Frank Bulk (Mar 31)
- RE: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Douglas Otis (Mar 31)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Stephen Satchell (Mar 31)