[anti-abuse-wg] Romanian Spam Network with curious effetcs

Tue Mar 19 13:15:19 CET 2013

Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

> Lutz Petersen <lp at shlink.de> wrote:
[...]
> There are quite a lot of networks on the Internet that are blocking
> traceroute packets, due to either incompetence or malevolence.

Assuming that a TCP-based service is available on the subnet of interest,
then `tcptraceroute´ is helpful in many cases :-)

>  Networks
> that know that they are harboring criminals and criminal activity will
> almost always be found to be blocking ordinary traceroute packets.
[...]
> Regards,
> rfg

hth,
-wilfried