RBL for bots?
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at bogus.com
Thu Feb 15 17:16:27 UTC 2007
Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:30:34 EST, Drew Weaver said:
>
>> Has anyone created an RBL, much like (possibly) the BOGON list which
>> includes the IP addresses of hosts which seem to be "infected" and are
>> attempting to brute-force SSH/HTTP, etc?
>
>> It would be fairly easy to setup a dozen or more honeypots and examine
>> the logs in order to create an initial list.
>
> A large percentage of those bots are in DHCP'ed cable/dsl blocks. As such,
> there's 2 questions:
>
> 1) How important is it that you not false-positive an IP that's listed because
> some *previous* owner of the address was pwned?
>
> 2) How important is it that you even accept connections from *anywhere* in
> that DHCP block?
That depends...
Do you sell "Internet service" to you customers or something else. If
the former then they're actually paying to receive connections from
anywhere...
> (Note that there *are* fairly good RBL's of DHCP/dsl/cable blocks out there.
> So it really *is* a question of why those aren't suitable for use in your
> application...)
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