[CLUE-Tech] reverse DNS

[Nate Duehr]

Charles Oriez wrote:

>
> Spamhaus had a come to jesus meeting with Savvis that got them to 
> clean up their act.  EV1 seems to be terminating spammers finally. 
> Ditto for Cogentco.  Even China seems to be cracking down.  I'm 
> definitely starting to see a trend now where I am removing more ISPs 
> from my local blocks than I am adding.  When we get to the point where 
> all the spammers have to host on a small handful of ISPs, the rest of 
> us can firewall that small set, they can spam each other to perdition 
> without bothering us, and the problem goes away.

Savvis *announced* that they would be cleaning up their act.  They have 
not done so, yet.  There is a difference.  (i.e. Free advertising.)

There was an interesting discussion pointing out that it will probably 
take Savvis a year to actually execute on their press release 
information on the NANOG list.

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Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com