[AusNOG] Telstra manipulating DNS to block botnets

[Barrie Hall]

I think that as Rod has elegantly demonstrated, simply contacting the
> registrars dosen’t cut the mustard, any more than Spamhaus et al’s attempts
> to get ISP’s to disconnect known spammers have made SPAM disappear in the
> last decade.****
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> Even in an ideal futuristic utopia where registrars were held to account,
> spammers will come up with any number of ways to sidestep such controls in
> minutes, until such time people stop clicking on links. ****
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> So at risk of a good old flaming, I think this is a bold move by Telstra,
> and actually quite commendable.  Also let’s face it they have been
> ‘tampering with DNS’ for years now  with sponsored adds for nxdomain, and
> more recently the Interpol blacklist, and to my knowledge the sky hasn’t
> actually fallen down yet.  Some people opted out,  perhaps some of them
> churned but we aren’t all eating soylent green just yet.****
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> I don’t agree that this opens the door to censorship, that door has been
> off it’s hinges for quite some time, and let’s face it using DNS to effect
> censorship is like making suicide illegal to save lives.  ****
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Well put Eric :)

Barrie
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