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Re: Antispam Firm Blue Security Says Was Victim of Attack

shrike@cyberspace.org
17 May 2006 19:47:59 -0700

>> With black-holing, an ISP essentially removes the advertised path to a
>> particular Web site or IP address -- making it completely inaccessible to
>> the outside world.

This is completely incorrect. Black-holing is the process of
announcing a more specific route for the host pointing it at a null0
interface. In effect they superceded the DOS, and at that moment
became the progenitor of a larger scale DOS against Blue
Security. Been there, done that, many times. They mitgated bad
traffic, but also denied good traffic.

Blue Security, (which should have considered a name that didn't
acronym as BS) should have considered the response they were going to
get. To redirect the traffic really shows these guys as ameatures in
the Internet business. All that aside it is time for some ISP's to
step up and offer the bandwidth to liquidate this problem. If these
guys want to go to war with spam, more power to them. ISP's deal with
router-crashing DOS loads nearly every day. Having one that is
predictable shouldn't be an issue.

-psy

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