[IP] more on Another DNS blacklist is taken down

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:09:37 +0530
From: Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Another DNS blacklist is taken down
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: declan@well.com


Might this not be another legitimate use for Freenet [1] or Eternity [2]?

What I am imagining here is that a loosely knit group of volunteers 
collates and prepares a blacklist, and then publishes this blacklist to 
freenet or eternity once a day or so. This would seem to be not vulnerable 
to the kind of DDoS described below.

Thoughts from the IP list?

Udhay

[1] http://freenet.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://www.cypherspace.org/~adam/eternity/


> 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

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