An anonymous reader writes "It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent closure of SORBS. The University of Queensland have decided not to honor their agreement with myself and SORBS and terminate the hosting contract.
I have been involved with institutions such as Griffith University trying to arrange alternative hosting for SORBS, but as of 12 noon, 22nd June 2009 no hosting has been acquired and therefore I have been forced in to this announcement. SORBS is officially "For Sale" should anyone wish to purchase it as a going concern, but failing that and failing to find alternative hosting for a 42RU rack in the Brisbane area of Queensland Australia SORBS will be shutting down permanently in 28 days, on 20th July 2009 at 12 noon.
This announcement will be replicated on the main SORBS website at the earliest opportunity.
For information about the possible purchase of SORBS, the source code, data, hosts etc, I maybe contacted at michelle@sorbs.net, telephone +61 414 861 744.
For any hosting suggestions/provision, please be aware that the 42RU space is a requirement at the moment, and the service cannot be made into a smaller rackspace without a lot of new hardware, virtual hosting is just not possible. The SORBS service services over 30 billion DNS queries per day, and has a number of database servers with fast disk to cope with the requirements.
I still think the best way to counter spam is to go on the offensive.
If our readers had a spam option, you could send pings, syn floods etc. to the offending IP for 24 hours at a paced out speed as not to affect the reading user. But 30M spamed people doing this at one IP would choke them up quick.
Upstream providers would them have to deal with the abuse the old fashioned way, kick them off the net.
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I still think the best way to counter spam is to go on the offensive.
If our readers had a spam option, you could send pings, syn floods etc. to the offending IP for 24 hours at a paced out speed as not to affect the reading user. But 30M spamed people doing this at one IP would choke them up quick.
Upstream providers would them have to deal with the abuse the old fashioned way, kick them off the net.