There has been a lot of discussion lately on the Spam-L list about using something like Entropy http://entropy.stop1984.com/en/home.html or FreeNet http://freenet.sourceforge.net as a means to distribute updates, since it's much like what you are describing below.
I certainly hope that there is a viable solution to all of this, as I don't see the spam issue getting any better in the near term. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Markus Gufler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:37 PM Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Attacks prompt shutdown of antispam lists > > > Multiply times the number of databases you want to use, times > > the number of times you would need to download them each day > > The size remains nearly the same. > 24 hourly little diff files = 1 daily diff file > > > > to stay current, times the number of people that want to > > download the files--have you got a spare OC-3 laying around...? > > No. If the file is shared from a single point it can be DDOSed even if > you have 3 OC-3s. The point is to push this data into a P2P network. Do > you know how much Terabytes of data any day will be transfered only by > mp3 and mpg exchange? It's not one single user who provides Madonna's > last song. ;-) > > Maybe the total traffic will increase because I will download (and in a > P2P network also share) data that I never need, simply because my server > doesn't receive any message from all this blacklisted Ips. > > But on the other side I will transfer any IP only one time if added and > one time if removed and this in a zipped format. At them moment I will > create traffic for every single message containing not only the IP but > also a unique identifier pointing to the regarding DNS server. > (Ip.ad.dr.es.dnsserver.provider.com) Don't talk about traffic overhead > for thousands of small IP packets. > > Maybe I'm missing something and you're right. > > Would be interresting to invite someone like Bill Larson from compu.net > who has send out this week an anouncement about his conseqences due the > the high DDOS attack risk that IP blacklist providers run into last > weeks. > I'm sure he can say something about traffic volume, daily changed > records and so on. > > Markus > > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > --- > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
