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Re: BLS FastAccess internal tech needed


From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:06:11 +0000 (GMT)




On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Fergie wrote:


RFC2827/BCP38?


not exactly... though most likely 2827 would have helped. Our abuse folks
called it 'fantasy mail' ... Spammer signs up for 'fast' link with
someone, uses a farm of juno dial (or netzero or... you get the point)
accounts to make a large number of machines dial out and start sending
email as the dial-up IP out the 'fast' link.

This was painful for a while, radius applied filters fix it now.

- ferg


-- Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com> wrote:

[snip]

What they're *trying* to do is actually quite sensible, and beats
spammers trying to do asymmetric routing / source address spoofing
type stuff

[snip]

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/



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