[Dshield] Need some help testing

Tomas L. Byrnes tomb at byrneit.net
Fri Jul 6 23:58:27 GMT 2007


I think he's confusing the fact that you have multiple MTAs with having
a dynamic IP address.

IE: He may receive the dshield posts from any one of a number of IPs,
but all of those IPS are statically assigned.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at lists.dshield.org 
> [mailto:list-bounces at lists.dshield.org] On Behalf Of Johannes 
> B. Ullrich
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 12:31 PM
> To: General DShield Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Dshield] Need some help testing
> 
> Mar Matthias Darin wrote:
> 
> > I have made every attemp possible to prevent false positives.  Plus 
> > several very nice people have contributed whitelists of IP 
> > addresses/domains that should be exclude from testing.  The SANS 
> > server that sends out the DShield list is a good example of 
> a dynamic IP address that should not be filtered.
> > Haphazard use of DynaStop will only lead to massive mail loss. 
> 
> SANS server using Dynamic IP? Sorry if I am jumping in here 
> half way into the discussion. But that caught my attention 
> ;-). All SANS servers should use "static" IP addresses.
> 
> 
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