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Another DNS blacklist is taken down
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 05:24:54 -0400
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:32:18 +1200 From: Hugh Lilly <hl () orcon net nz> Subject: Fwd: Another DNS blacklist is taken down To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> Declan, Dave, Forwarded from NANOG for your consideration for IP/Politech. - -hdl - ---------- Forwarded Message: ---------- Subject: Another DNS blacklist is taken down Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 04:28 From: Justin Shore <listuser () numbnuts net> To: nanog () merit edu 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 It's truely a sad day for spam fighters everywhere. So, my question for NANOG is how does one go about attracting the attention of law enforcement when your network is under attack? How does the target of such an attack get a large network provider who's customers are part of the attack to pay attention? Is media attention the only way to pressure a response from either group? These DDoS attacks have received some attention in mainstream media: http://www.msnbc.com/news/959094.asp?0cv=TB10 http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/08/28/saboteurs_hit_spams_blo ckers Apparently it hasn't been enough. Legal remedies take too long and are cost prohibitive (unless you're the DoJ). Subpoenas and civil lawsuits take months if not years. Relief is needed in days if not hours. Justin - ------------------------------------------------------- - -- (C) 2003 Hugh Lilly mail: hl () orcon net nz blog: http://hugh.orcon.net.nz Registered Linux User # 295486, register @ http://counter.li.org ______________________________________________________ There's only so much stupidity you can compensate for; there comes a point where you compensate for so much stupidity that it starts to cause problems for the people who actually think in a normal way. -Bill, digital.forest tech support -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/cjeSGPk1r6aoIIIRArokAJ9jG7RisOAIJ0Zr2ckNtjPNOfBwRQCgiZjU TdbVnd5WXRtqat1IVXduWpQ= =HdwU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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