RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re:Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

You can easily make IP reputation scale to IPV6 using the APL RRTYPE.

See RFC3123

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Alston [mailto:karnaugh () karnaugh za net] 
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 8:18 AM
> To: Paul Vixie
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation 
> industry? (Re:Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)
>
> On 2008/06/22 06:17 PM Paul Vixie wrote:
> > with EC2, it's game-over for the IP reputation industry
>
> Realistically speaking, did you not expect that to be inevitable?
>
> As access to the internet increases, the chances of SMTP 
> scaling to prevent spam decreases. And as IP's become more 
> numerous and 'chuckable' (so much more so with IPv6 around 
> the corner), the idea of a blacklist becomes ever more useless.
>
> What we need is a new mail protocol.. [But people have been 
> saying that for decades now]