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Re: Another DNS blacklist is taken down
- From: Jared Mauch
- Date: Mon Sep 29 13:04:16 2003
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:51:08AM -0700, Mike Batchelor wrote:
> --On Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:18 PM -0500 Justin Shore
> <listuser@numbnuts.net> wrote:
> >On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Joel Perez wrote:
> >
> >>So back to my ACL's I go!
> >
> >This is one of the most likely things to happen. DNS RBLs are effective.
> > Otherwise spammers wouldn't be targeting them for abuse.
>
> What evidence is there that spammers are the ones doing the DDoS?
There is likely some conjecture here, but aside from the DNS RBLs
that cause collateral damage (ie: blacklisting large chunks
of address space to cause behaviour change) who has something to gain
from these dnsbl's going down?
- Jared
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