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Re: spamhaus drop list

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Wed Jun 17 20:40:46 2009

In-Reply-To: <200906171953440.32BF5B92.21620@clifden.donelan.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:09:58 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Sean Donelan<sean@donelan.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>>
>> The cymru bogons list and the spamhaus drop list target two entirely
>> distinct issues and they shouldnt be confused together.
>
> Correct. =C2=A0And whatever list you use, for whatever purpose, at the ti=
me you
> start using it also set up a process to update it or age old entries. Don=
't
> wait until later.
>
> Those lists will be there long after you forget about it, and maybe even
> longer than you; and it will save you or your successor a lot of
> troubleshooting headaches.

.. and to sanity check the fallout of fat fingers, bitrot or whatever
(like where you set out to block a /24 but end up blocking a /2
instead)


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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)


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