Make sure my systems are buttoned down...
Let the ISP's care when other ISP's start firewalling then because they care so much about hackers on their own network.
And actually, Dave, I don't mean to argue, but the people I talked to probably couldn't spell TCP/IP... I'm not kidding. I eventually (after hours and days of bitching) got to 1 guy who had a brain in his skull. A real brain I tell you. :)
He tried the same excuse. "We just don't have the manpower to do anything about it"... Well geez, bob... I'm GIVING you the IP address... turn on your spiffy packet sniffer and watch the attacks... YEESH! There whole system is ubercontrolled for the dynamic users... the users CAN'T get on without Auth'ing into the system. <sigh> In the case of SBC/Ameritech who's mech's into the system are so tight (and seeing how much spam I get from them) I would think it would only be good PR for them to mount some sort of battle.. instead, they do just the opposite. They don't care.
The ISP my server sits on was prepping a policy to block attackers... especially at a customer's request...
But now I have my handy blackhole script.. :) Heheh...
Ok, enough of my bitching. Thanks for taking the time to read it. (and give me a venting outlet!)
-Ben
p.s. I just converted a friend in Phoenix from Exchange to RH9.0 w/sendmail and MIMEdefang, etc...etc...
David F. Skoll wrote:
I don't think that's necessarily true. I think it's more like they can't afford to care. If ISPs had to deal with every single instance of spam, malware or attempted hacking, they'd go out of business. The support costs would be way too high.
I used to try to track down port-scanners, attempted-relayers, etc. but it quickly got boring and tiresome. I now see most of that as simply the "background noise" of the Internet, and only react to large or persistent threats.
Regards,
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