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Re: ISP port blocking practice
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 18:38:50 -0700
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Franck Martin <franck () genius com> wrote:
In many countries, the presence of bots consume a non-trivial amount of bandwidth. In developing countries, this is a non trivial amount of $$$ (http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/1620212/UN-Tech-Group-Finds-Mo st-Expensive-Broadband) Blocking port 25 allows to help identify which hosts are consuming bandwidth (likely to have a bot). Identifying and removing these hosts from the network is crucial and economically viable, unfortunately these are skills sometimes not available in such countries. Just saying...
It looks like Germany is now all aboard a program regarding this: http://www.cio.com.au/article/359491/germany_launch_antibotnet_program_cons umers/ FYI, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFMhEYkq1pz9mNUZTMRAkA0AJ44e0uMzlR4iXwpZAE8RQSUM3NmegCg4kV1 WOyT+X0/daNa92gGYG53Rtg= =yMOX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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- Re: ISP port blocking practice, (continued)
- Re: ISP port blocking practice Owen DeLong (Sep 03)
- Re: ISP port blocking practice John R. Levine (Sep 03)
- Re: ISP port blocking practice Robert E. Seastrom (Sep 08)
- RE: ISP port blocking practice Brian Johnson (Sep 12)
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- Re: ISP port blocking practice Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 03)
- Re: ISP port blocking practice Claudio Lapidus (Sep 05)
- Re: ISP port blocking practice Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 05)
- Re: ISP port blocking practice Franck Martin (Sep 05)
- Re: ISP port blocking practice Paul Ferguson (Sep 05)
- Re: ISP port blocking practice Jon Lewis (Sep 05)
- Re: ISP port blocking practice Owen DeLong (Sep 05)
- Re: ISP port blocking practice Franck Martin (Sep 05)
- Re: ISP port blocking practice Jon Auer (Sep 06)
- Re: ISP port blocking practice Scott Howard (Sep 11)
- Re: ISP port blocking practice Brett Frankenberger (Sep 06)
- Re: ISP port blocking practice Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 06)
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- Re: ISP port blocking practice Brett Frankenberger (Sep 06)
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