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Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]
- Subject: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]
- From: ksimpson at mailchannels.com (Ken Simpson)
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:37:34 -0700
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> Source IP blocking makes up a large portion of today's spam arrest
> approach,
> so we shouldn't discount the CPU benefits of that approach too
> quickly.
>
> I'm not sure where today's technology is in regards for caching the
> first 1
> to 10kB of a session....once enough information is garnered to
> block, issue
> TCP RSETs. If it's good, free the contents of the cache.
What's your interest in mopping up spam in the middle of the network?
Usually spam is viewed as a leaf-node problem (much to the chagrin of
receivers, actually).
Regards,
Ken
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