On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:03:37 -0700, "certtaker"
<bata****hi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>what does null routing do? Also, what is it?
>
If an ISP sets it's routers to "null route" a path, then that path is
basically broken. Null routing a range of IP addresses simply tells
connecting computers that those addresses don't exist on the network.
If your ISP decides to cease peering with savvis, for example, they
can set their router to route all traffic to and from savvis to the
bit bucket, and then all computers on their side of the routers will
see savvis as simple disconnected, not part of the internet. Then even
if the spams pointing to one of their many spammer's pages gets
through via raping a proxy on a legitimate network, none of the
suckers target by the spam can see the savvis hosted pages or email to
the savis hosted spammer's domains. Even P2P file sharing, IRC,
Instant Messager, etc will be dead from that standpoint. Blocking
email doesn't work very well, the spam is almost never sent from the
host's network, the spammers might use Savis or the chinese to harbor
their pages, but they rape relays on legetimate networks to send the
crap because they know savvis and china and Brazil, and others nests
of s*** are widely blocked. So the spam gets send through a trojanes
computer owned by some little old lady with a cable modem who just
uses it to email her grandkids and suddenly she's blocked for being a
spammer while the spammer rapes another proxy tomorrow for the next
batch. Null routing the hosts who harbor the spammer's pages and other
services takes the profit out of spam hosting. Legitimate customers
of Savvis can get legitmate hosting on legitimate networks.
And that's the key to ending spam. Spammers aren't the disease, they
are the symptom. They are the moquitoes, their host is the swamp.
Drain the swamp, and you get rid of the blood suckers. As long as
there are spam frienly providers who are able to connect to the rest
of the internet, then there will be s*** who use such services to
steal from and harass the rest of the internet. But spam host like
Savvis would be forced to clean up their networks immediately by the
end of the day is the big three (AOL, MSN, and Earthlink) got together
and desided to null route them until they stopped harboring spammers.
Can you imagine them trying to sell their service... "We offer
connectivity to all the internet except AOL, MSN, and Earthlink."
Even the spammers wouldn't have use for their service! The CEOs of
those three companies could end spam worldwide in under a week.
But here's the problem: It wont work unless at least one of those
does it. Bubba's bait shop and ISP could null route all of savvis,
and when email doesn't get through and pages don't work, then Bubba
gets the blame for it being broken, and his customers who might have
some use for some otherwise legitimate page or service hosted
downstream of Savvis. So Bubba shoots himself in the foot if he goes
it alone. We have to convince the big three to take up the issue.
Untl at least one does, spamming is going to continue getting worse.
William R. James
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