[Mimedefang] monkeys.dom UPL being DDOSed to death

[F.M. Taylor]

I will probably hate myself in the morning, but.....

I have a big fat pipe, and a good number of "healthy sized" Sun servers.

I would be willing to host a DNSBL here.  We have lawyers, a police force, and 
are "state owned".  Getting law enforcement involved would not be a problem, if 
someone wanted to F*** with me I would totally enjoy squashing them.

I don't have time to go software hunting, but something easy to setup that 
someone could point me to would work for me.  Something that is basically self 
maintaining, I could handle a few "actions" per day, but not several thousand. 
I mean I do have a real job, so I can't spend ALL my time maintaining a single 
application.

So, if you have what I would need, or know where it is, let me know.

Jon R. Kibler wrote:
> Greetings to all:
> 
> I have some really sad news. I just got off the telephone with Ron Guilmette
> who runs the monkeys.com Unsecured Proxies List DNSBL. I hate to say it, but
> monkeys.com has been killed. It has been DDOSed to death.
> 
> Ron says that every aspect of his network is undergoing a massive DDOS attack
> from thousands of IPs -- apparently many/all spoofed. He has tried to get law
> enforcement to investigate, but to no avail. He indicated that this is
> probably the end of his service.
> 
> This makes two DNSBLs that have been DDOSed to death recently. Which one is
> next? NJABL? ORDB?
> 
> The computer security industry really needs to figure out how to get law
> enforcement to take these attacks seriously. It would only take a few good
> prosecutions to put an end to these types of attacks. Any
> thoughts/suggestions?
> 
> This is really a dark day for those of us fighting spam. I looks like the
> spammers have won a BIG battle. The only question now is who will be the
> causality in this war?
> 
> Jon R. Kibler A.S.E.T., Inc. Charleston, SC  USA
> 
> 
> 
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