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Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]


From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:23:08 +0900

be specific, like "if you run X tools the payoff will be Y."
Yes.  And where is the appropriate form for this?

there must be some operators' list somewhere.

> it doesn't seem like the sort of thing NANOG is for

yep. nanog is for whining about it, not doing/saying something actually constructive with technical content.

</sarcasm>

speaking as a small provider, I can tell you that I find running snort
against my inbound traffic does reduce the cost of running an abuse desk.
I do catch offenders before I get abuse@ complaints, sometimes.

unfortunately snort does not really scale to a larger provider. and, to the best of my poor knowledge, good open source tools to black-hole/redirect botted users are not generally available. universities have some that are good at campus and enterprise scale.

cymru and a few security researchers responded privately to my plea for solid open source tool sets and refs. knowing the folk involved, maybe we'll see some motion. patience is a virtue, within limits.

randy


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