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IIALP - Abuse Logging Protocol

Posted by michael on from the hey-you-kids-get-off-my-lawn dept.

George Davey sent us a press release about abuselog.org, a site for the development of a generalized protocol for logging internet annoyances and abuses to a set of central servers, which could then be queried to find out which IPs are luserish.

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  1. Re:DHCP and MAC by djh101010 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, because the MAC address is so hard to change. ifconfig on some systems can do it, and a D-Link router can assume any MAC you'd like it to.

  2. Re:I hope by MobyDisk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is very important. Slashdot periodically posts stories about RBLs that add people, but never remove them. As horrible as it is to think, I wonder if some sort of legislation (governmental, ICANN, or otherwise) is necessary to keep these systems fair.

    I recently had Comcast shut down my port 25 access due to spam reports. Of course, they refused to tell me who reported me or what they reported, so even giving them logs of my outgoing port 25 access from a sniffer isn't enough for them to remove the mark from my record. (However, if I tell them I went to Windows update and ran a virus scanner they enable my access again. Nevermind that Windows Update doesn't do much on my Linux box. :-) )