Cold IP = Botnet Signature. Here's How We Learned That the Hard Way
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Spin up a mail server Friday. Send 10,000 messages to the internet by Saturday morning. By Sunday, every mailbox provider on Earth is convinced you're a botnet. Your email lands in spam. Your IP gets blocklisted. Your team gets paged. Sunday is ruined. We did this. This is a real thing that happened. Why New IPs Are Radioactive Gmail doesn't know who 203.0.113.42 is. Microsoft doesn't know. Yahoo doesn't know. To them, this IP appeared from nowhere, started cranking out mail at volume, and…
1Key Takeaways
- Send 10,000 messages to the internet by Saturday morning.
- By Sunday, every mailbox provider on Earth is convinced you're a botnet.
- Why New IPs Are Radioactive Gmail doesn't know who 203.0.113.42 is.
- To them, this IP appeared from nowhere, started cranking out mail at volume, and….
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