Network Operators Unite Against SORBS
Patrick W. Gilmore
patrick at ianai.net
Tue Oct 12 16:46:40 UTC 2010
On Oct 12, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:35 AM, iHate SORBS <ihatesorbs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am calling on all Network Operators to stand up and stop routing
>> dnsbl.sorbs.net until that time they can commit to making real changes.
>>
>
> What sort of changes are you suggesting? Suggesting a block unless they
> make undisclosed changes is simply asinine.
>
> I'm no fan of SORBS, but at the end of the day (ignoring the issues like
> they had last week) they do what they say they do.
>
> The problem with SORBS is not SORBS itself, but the mail admins that are
> stupid enough to use it - or at least stupid enough to use it as a straight
> blacklist (as opposed to a scoring blacklist). Start up a campaign against
> those if you like - perhaps an RBL of people who are using the SORBS RBL -
> but asking people to stop "routing" a DNS domain just because you don't like
> their clearly stated listing criteria simply isn't going to fly.
I kinda-sortta feel like many others who have posted here. This is a mail thing, not netops. Grow a pair and post under your own name. Is it even on-topic for NANOG? Etc.
I even started typing a message to the effect of: "even though I don't like SORBS, they should be allowed to publish a list and let others do as they please". But then I realized, that is all this anonymous person is asking. Or at least it could be.
If "iHate SORBS" wants to create a (another?) list of prefixes which should not be routed, and put SORBS on it, he (she?) should be allowed, just as SORBS should be allowed to have a list of mail servers SORBS doesn't like. Then each operator can decide whether to implement a block based on the list or not. Your network, your decision.
Of course, I fully expect no one to implement the block. But that is no reason to deny the ability to create the list.
Now, I feel like quoting Pastor Niemöller so we can end this thread. :)
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TTFN,
patrick
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