[Fwd: monkeys.dom UPL DNSBL being DDOSed to death]

Tue Sep 23 21:00:51 UTC 2003

Forwarded for your information.  That leave 2 proxy DNSbls left - SORBS and 
DSBL...  Looking at the stats for SORBS over at SDSC looks like SORBS is 
pretty ineffective thanks to the DDoS:

(see: http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html)

-------- Original Message --------
From: Jon R. Kibler <Jon.Kibler.multi at ng.aset.com>
Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
Subject: monkeys.dom UPL DNSBL being DDOSed to death
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:26:47 -0400

Greetings to all:

I have some really sad news. I just got off the telephone with Ron Guilmette 
who runs the monkeys.com Unsecured Proxies List DNSBL. I hate to say it, but 
monkeys.com has been killed. It has been DDOSed to death.

Ron says that every aspect of his network is undergoing a massive DDOS 
attack from thousands of IPs -- apparently many/all spoofed. He has tried to 
get law enforcement to investigate, but to no avail. He indicated that this 
is probably the end of his service.

This makes two DNSBLs that have been DDOSed to death recently. Which one is 
next? NJABL? ORDB?

The computer security industry really needs to figure out how to get law 
enforcement to take these attacks seriously. It would only take a few good 
prosecutions to put an end to these types of attacks. Any thoughts/suggestions?

This is really a dark day for those of us fighting spam. It looks like the 
spammers have won a BIG battle. The only question now is who will be the 
causality in this war?

Jon R. Kibler
A.S.E.T., Inc.
Charleston, SC  USA