Re: Not! the same DNS records for different checks

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 03:10:57PM -0500, Richard Rognlie wrote:

> *EVERYONE* has and uses firewalls.  In fact, many sites use firewalls
> to restrict inbound traffic, but not outbound.

If they could easily do with their firewall but don't want to, 
why should they be waiting for DRIP instead of simply using the
firewall?





> So, assume you are one of these "promiscious" sites.  and one of my
> machines gets infected with some virus or another.
> 
> And it goes through my address books and starts doing direct to MX
> spamming as its controller mandates.

I do understand what DRIP does and which problem it fixes.

The question is: Is this a subject of this working group or of 
ASRG in common? 

It is very important to stay focussed on the problem and not to 
slide away. 

If we want to cover this problem, okay, but we need to actively
decide and state that we want to solve this problem as well.
We should not try to solve problems outside the scope just by 
passing by.

We are the "Anti-Spam-Research-Group", not the "Computer Infection
Research Group".  Are such infected computers and related things a
problem we want to cope with? Is this a real problem? Yes or No...


(sorry for getting a little bit harsh, but we need to keep a shape.)

regards
Hadmut