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Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names
- From: Mikael Abrahamsson
- Date: Sat Mar 31 06:59:42 2007
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Gadi Evron wrote:
In this case, we speak of a problem with DNS, not sendmail, and not bind.
The argument can be made that you're trying to solve a windows-problem by
implementing blocking in DNS.
Next step would be to ask all access providers to block outgoing UDP/53 so
people can't use open resolvers or machines set up to act as resolvers for
certain DNS information that the botnets need, as per the same analysis
that blocking TCP/25 stops spam.
So what you're trying to do is a pure stop-gap measure that won't scale in
the long run. Fix the real problem instead of trying to bandaid the
symptoms.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx
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