La popular conocida lista negra de SORBS, podría cerrar el 22 de Julio del presente 2009. Parece que la Universidad de Queensland, donde tenían el hosting, ha decidido no respetar el acuerdo que tenía con SORBS y por tanto ahora mismo está en venta a no ser que alguien pueda ofrecer espacio para un rack de 42 Us en Australia.
SORBS mantenía unas políticas de deslistado de IPs bastante controvertidas, llegando a veces hasta a cobrar por el deslistado de una IP de su lista negra. Es por ello que mucha gente se alegra de tal cierre.
De una u otra forma, SORBS ha sido una de las listas negras más usadas y que siempre ha estado ahí con sus listas de relays abiertos, proxys, SOCKS, rangos de IPs dinámicas…etc. Su trabajo hay que reconocerlo ya que llevan desde 2002 con dicho proyecto, soportando 30 billones de consultas DNS al día.
Veremos el 22 de Julio qué es lo que pasa.
El comunicado es el siguiente:
ANNOUNCEMENT: Possible SORBS Closure…
| 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. Thank you for all your support over the years, Michelle Sullivan (Previously known as Matthew Sullivan) |