Another RBL shut down due to DDoS

Sad news.
After Osirusoft RBL server, it is the second time that spammers are shutting down a RBL server with DDoS attacks. This time the target was monkeys.com.

From NANOG:


-------- Original Message --------
From: Jon R. Kibler <Jon.Kibler.multi@ng.aset.com>
Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
Subject: monkeys.dom UPL DNSBL being DDOSed to death
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:26:47 -0400

Greetings to all:

I have some really sad news. I just got off the telephone with Ron Guilmette
who runs the monkeys.com Unsecured Proxies List DNSBL. I hate to say it, but
monkeys.com has been killed. It has been DDOSed to death.

Ron says that every aspect of his network is undergoing a massive DDOS
attack from thousands of IPs -- apparently many/all spoofed. He has tried to
get law enforcement to investigate, but to no avail. He indicated that this
is probably the end of his service.

This makes two DNSBLs that have been DDOSed to death recently. Which one is
next? NJABL? ORDB?

The computer security industry really needs to figure out how to get law
enforcement to take these attacks seriously. It would only take a few good
prosecutions to put an end to these types of attacks. Any thoughts/suggestions?

This is really a dark day for those of us fighting spam. It looks like the
spammers have won a BIG battle. The only question now is who will be the
causality in this war?

Jon R. Kibler
A.S.E.T., Inc.
Charleston, SC USA

And no one is taking any action against those spammers.

Technical Advisory:

Remove *.monkeys.com from your DNSBL lookup list. Keeping it in your list may cause losing emails or other kinds of unforseen damages to your email system.