ARIN whois

Thu Nov 25 05:59:40 UTC 1999

I have never heard them say anything of the sort.

I do know that ORBS is uncommonly good at blocking relays.   Much, much better than RBL. One admin I talked to recently told me about 8 of 10 relayed spams were identified by ORBS.  Of course, is ORBS that good, or is ORBS actually the source of the relay attacks?  I think the latter.  I know our attacks increased (started actually) after ORBS people started inciting attacks.

If it weren't for ORBS there wouldn't be so many relay attacks.

I think it would be helpful to block all traffic to ORBS as an organization that promotes and incites criminal activity.  I think port scanning from ORBS into the US can be blocked immediately by any ISP as an unauthorized security scan, and a security attack.   We block them not only from our servers, but all of our customers as well.  Of course, they still advertise our servers to spammer and antispammer attackers.  All I can do is keep listing them in our complaints to the FBI.  But more complaints will help.

		--Dean

At 03:19 AM 11/25/1999 +0300, Alex P. Rudnev supposedly said:
>Btw.
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>They, antispammers, have one usefull policy. Yes, you can keep OPEN RELAY, if
>you agree to restrict RELAYING FROM the wrong (existing in the ORBS or other)
>sources.
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>It's just enougph for the business.
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>Alex R.
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>On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Dean Anderson wrote:
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>> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:13:59 -0500
>> From: Dean Anderson <dean at av8.com>
>> To: J.D. Falk <jdfalk at cybernothing.org>, nanog at merit.edu
>> Subject: Re: ARIN whois
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>> I'm surprised to see such poorly considered statements from JD. 
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>> Unless SMTP AUTH (just released in sendmail 3 weeks ago) works in every client, and is support in MS Exchange, then we (that is we as an operations community) don't have the technology to practically authenticate it yet.  I too can write an authenticated SSL client & server to transfer mail between two computers. But its not useful unless its widely deployed.  Statements to the contrary are just foolishness in an operational context such as a real business. We are running a _BUSINESS_, not a research lab, with one server and one specially developed client.
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>> We don't run relays out of laziness. We went out of our way to enable them. We go out of our way to monitor them for unauthorized use.  We would certainly prefer an authenticated mail system.  We have to live with what is currently deployed.
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>> What annoys me about the pressure from the junior antispammer league is they go from "gee, you know you can close those relays" 
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>> We respond "Yes, we know. We operate them on purpose for business reasons". At times, I've explained these business reasons in detail. The technical conclusion is then that we have to operate relays.
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>> They then jump to "Thats unacceptable. You MUST CLOSE THEM". 
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>> We say "No. Absolutely not."  
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>> They say "Well, in that case we're going to start committing crimes against your service, posting to alt.2600, inciting attacks, and wasting your time, bandwidth, and computer resources until you agree to close them."  
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>> We say, thats extortion.  We say that crimes against our service are crimes. We report them, and they will get eventually get punished, and we will work hard to get paid for the services rendered and the damages done by criminals.  We don't tolerate this sort of behavior.  Most companies don't.  
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>> 		--Dean
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>Aleksei Roudnev,
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