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Re: Botnets buying up IPv4 address space
From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen () unfix org>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:41:36 +0200
On 2011-10-12 19:34 , Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote:
I don't buy the "bad-guys-rig-policies" thing... but well, I could be wrong.
Rigging is not the right name for it, which is why the original message stated 'gaming', which is quite accurate. You just set up an official (shell) company and thus get official papers for it and with that you go to RIPE NCC (or any other RIR or LIR) and request a new chunk of address space just like every other organization is able to do. Nothing much that RIPE NCC can do about, as all the paperwork will check out just fine and they will generally even pay the fees as well, they are making money off it. [..]
My logs show that I get spam over IPv6, so some bad guys might be already doing it.
Spam will come over every path possible. If a compromised machine has IPv6, it will thus also come over IPv6 if your MXs are reachable over it. Just repeat: Long live SpamAssassin ;) Greets, Jeroen
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