On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:43:50PM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote: > > perhaps due to my aggressive blocking of spam netblocks, we've become > > a favorite whipping boy for spammers who're sending us SYN requests > > and holding all our smtpd's hostage. > > I have absolutely no advice to give on the iptables rules, but I wonder: > what do you think about something of a community database of these bad > boys (and girls)? I for one would like to ally with trustable folk like > you, blocking them off completely. I haven't begun to think of the > technology we'd need to keep in-sync with each other and handle address > additions, since I'd rather start with knowing what you (and everyone > else) thinks of the concept. :)
But we already have the technology -- namely "BAD-BOYS-BIND" -- the DNS, modified to handle/store a database of bad-boys (and girls). PMana _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
