Another DNS blacklist is taken down

Wed Sep 24 17:35:08 UTC 2003

>> > So, my question for NANOG is how does one go about attracting the 
>> > attention of law enforcement when your network is under attack?
How 
>> > does the target of such an attack get a large network provider
who's 
>> > customers are part of the attack to pay attention?  Is media 
>> > attention the only way to pressure a response from either group?  
>> > These DDoS attacks have received some attention in mainstream
media:
>>
>> People will pay attention as soon as there is money in black lists. 
>> ISP's are businesses.  If losing the customer is cheaper than helping

>> them far too many will choose to lose the customer.  Many black lists

>> don't pay the ISP at all, indeed they are offered as free services
for 
>> the good of the community.  As a result they get the response that
any 
>> freeloader would, none.
>
>RBLs Sounds like a great application for P2P.

Perhaps, but it also seems like moving an RBL onto a P2P network would
making poisoning the RBL far too easy...

Andrew