Name And Shame, or just being neighborly?
After some discussions with colleagues I decided in early August 2008 to generate daily reports of the activities of machines that had made it into the local blacklist on bsdly.net and publish the results. If all we have is the fact that a machine has entered a blacklist as an IP address (such as 24.165.4.190), and there is no supporting material, it is fairly easy for whoever is in charge of that address range to just igjore the entry as an unsupported allegation. We hope that when whoever is responsible for the network containing 24.165.4.190 sees a sequence like this, Host 24.165.4.190: Aug 10 02:57:40 skapet spamd[13548]: 24.165.4.190: connected (9/8) Aug 10 02:57:54 skapet spamd[13548]: (GREY) 24.165.4.190:
