Totally agree with Grzegorz,

IMO we should avoid this kind of situations, there should be filters for this kind of probes and maybe, if the goal is farm credits, remove the credits obtained by these probes to prevent these situations from proliferating.

kix

On Monday, February 5th, 2024 at 22:05, Ponikierski, Grzegorz via ripe-atlas <ripe-atlas@ripe.net> wrote:

I reported the problem in March 2022 but without good solution :/

 

https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/2022-March/004961.html

 

Filtering out all software probes is not a solution because many of them are good and useful. We should have filters to filter out probes which are useless and are deployed only for farming purposes and here we have totally such case.

 

Regards,

Grzegorz

 

From: ripe-atlas <ripe-atlas-bounces@ripe.net> on behalf of Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Monday, 5 February 2024 at 18:54
To: Ben Cartwright-Cox via ripe-atlas <ripe-atlas@ripe.net>
Subject: Re: [atlas] Possible software probe "farming" on AS47583

 

While doing some measurement work  earlier this weekend I discovered

that there are a large amount of probes on AS47583  that look like

they are being set up to farm credits.

 

seems silly, as all one has to do to get a jillion credits is asl on the

mailing list

 

randy

 

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