[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thursday, February 23, 2006 10:28 AM -0600, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Frankly I am in agreement with Billy Y. I myself have gotten black > > holed because someone on the same netblock sent a bunch of spam. > > Getting off the list was impossible because I did not control the > > netblock. It took over three months, and I have a fixed IP! > > There are plenty situations like this around and its very unfortunate > when innocent third parties are affected. This is why DNSBL's are both > loved and hated. It sounds like you were in what Paul Vixie called a > "bad neighborhood" on the internet. Other people in your netblock were > likely abusing outside networks and the provider was not cooperative in > fixing the problem. He wound up with a netblock blackholed which > affected all his customers. > > It's similar to a multi-unit in a big city neighborhood where there's a > lot of drug dealing. Ideally, the police would catch the perpetrators > and the problem would be solved. But the landlord is lax and continues > to rent to people who conduct illegal activities and create a public > nuisance. Eventually, it may get to the point where the city condemns > the building and everyone in it loses their apartment. Some of the > people were clearly innocent, but allowing the situation to continue was
> not a good option either. Whatever the police did, many people would be > unhappy. Prosecuting the current perpetrators, and watching them > quickly replaced with similar tenants would not satisfy the neighbors > desire for a safe neighborhood. Seizing the building and throwing > everybody out is clearly unfair to tenants who did nothing wrong. It's > just a bad situation. Actually it is even worse than you describe. One case that I mentioned on the list a while ago involved a stolen/forged credit card being used to buy hosting services. The fraud was stopped in 48 hours or less, but the damage from RBLs lasted for weeks. This is why I think locking people out based on multiple RBLs is not a good choice. Best, Allen
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