Null-routing upstream
We’ve been fretting over what to do when an ISP or webhost is spam friendly or a spam supporter.
Here’s what the big guys do, such as Steve Lindford at Spamhaus.
He contacts the NOC, and gets the IP’s nullrouted there. So the downstream providers can promise bullet proof hosting all they want, the server will still go down the moment Steve gets on the horn…
Check out Steve’s post on NANAE
BTW, there’s a lot of hilarious stuff in that thread, so click on the link at the top as well: ironserver.com creamed (again)
That post concerns a spammer I’ve written about before:
August 4th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
Who is the spammer who loads spam email with text from a Steel Rat novel?
This operator spams all day long for fraudulent pharmacy doorways hosted in China.
There are so many documented complaints on the web regarding these spam and website operations, including Spamhaus documentation, it is difficult to understand why the current China host IPs are not immediately null-routed and the spammer shutdown.
Whoever would complain the loudest regarding such a null-routing would most likely be the John Doe sponsors and spammers.