On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 00:29, Steve Thomas wrote: > It's official. An announcement is forthcoming. I'll bet the spammers are dancing > around gleefully right about now. > Celebrating their own stupidity. They're doing themselves far more harm than good. > > ----- Forwarded message from George William Herbert ----- > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re[2]: relays.osirusoft.com > Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:07:33 -0700 > > >> returning 127.0.0.2 for everything would be an ugly way to bow out. > > > >yes, but it's been done before. > > Someone has been in contact with Joe via phone and posted > to another mailing list That Zhall Not Be Named that > exactly that is happening. The zone is dead, he's put > *.*.*.* in, he's asking people not to use it anymore. > It may be back in the future with a new network setup, > but right now consider it down. > > We're working on getting him to send out a public announcement. > > Yes, this is due to a massive DDOS. At least three > of the spamfilter BLs have been so attacked this week. > > Some of the networks represented here have not been > as timely about helping the BL providers with the > DDOSes as they could be. Please keep in mind that > without dynamic BLs anti-spam folks will fall back > to sending out static block maps, which getting your > IP space out of will be difficult if not impossible. > > IT IS VERY MUCH IN NETWORK OPERATORS > BEST INTEREST THAT THIS NOT HAPPEN. > > Please take what measures are necessary to help > ensure that your customers are not intentionally > or neglegently DDOSing the BLs.
If anyone has a copy of the zones for osirusoft before the ddos destroyed it, I'd like a copy. I think the only fair response to this ddos is to try and ensure it does not benefit the thugs who are carrying it out. The obvious way to do that is to run a copy of it locally or for small groups of users to share it between them, can anyone help? -- Yorkshire Dave -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
