On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Jeremy Spilman <jer...@taplink.co> wrote: >> are dnsseeds being blocked > ostensibly because they are acting as dyanamic DNS infrastructure for > malware sites?
Pretty much appears to be the case. In every instance it appears to be automated. This predates the msft no-ip.com stuff. We also had similar problems with the IRC based method that the software originally used. It's the same story for mail relay spam blacklisting. There is a whole industry out there selling people semi-snake-oil blocking solutions to make the baddness of the internet go away. The low margin business demands a cheap and highly automated approach... lots of inappropriate things get blocked. Nagging people to fix things is time consuming, better to move out of their sights a bit, so that they at least have to specifically target Bitcoin. If they do, it'll at least be worth the time spent fixing it. I believe opendns is blocking all of sipa.be still as we speak, so if you'd like to see it for yourself try to load http://bitcoin.sipa.be while using opendns. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
