From: Petri Helenius (no email)
Date: Sun Apr 01 2007 - 02:15:59 EDT
Jeff Shultz wrote:
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> We're looking at the alligators surrounding us. Gadi is trying to
> convince us to help him in draining the swamp (which may indeed be a
> positive thing in the long run).
>
> Does that sound about right?
>
If you drain the swamp the hippo's will be very angry and run at you.
The problem argued here is heavily dependent on how long it would take
for the bad guys to adapt. I would assume it's less time than it would
take to deploy a global system for DNS abuse mitigation. So "fixing" a
single protocol would not take us any significant distance because the
next thing would be either:
- XML-RPC
- SOAP
- proprietary name-lookup system
- p2p botnet control
- etc...
(yes, blocking port 80 would be a good start)
I also have yet to observe measurable reduction of spam since more port
25 blocking has been supposedly taken into use.
This is a problem in the policy / edge. It's not something that should
be solved in the core. It's immensely easier to blame somebody else (in
the case of this thread, registries/registrars) for somebody elses
problem (Windows users). It's significantly harder to fix the real
issue. But I hope at least part of the loudmouths are up for that.
Pete
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