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Blocking Zombie Spam Netblocks

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 1, 2008

“DROP (Don’t Route Or Peer) is an advisory “drop all traffic”
list, consisting of stolen ‘zombie’ netblocks and netblocks
controlled entirely by professional spammers. DROP is a tiny
sub-set of the SBL designed for use by firewalls and routing
equipment.

“DROP is currently available as a simple text list, but will
also be available shortly as BGP with routes of listed IPs
announced via an AS# allowing networks to then null those routes as
being IPs that they do not wish to route traffic for.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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