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Re: IPv6 filtering (was Re: IPv6 internet broken,

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marco Hogewoning)
Mon Oct 12 15:49:39 2009

From: Marco Hogewoning <marcoh@marcoh.net>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
In-Reply-To: <4AD38649.2030009@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:48:53 +0200
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Oct 12, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote:

> Marco Hogewoning wrote:
> [..]
>> As this thread has drifted off topic any way, would it for instance  
>> be a
>> good idea to simply not accept mail from hosts that clearly use
>> autoconfig ie reject all smtp from EUI-64 addresses
>
> Can you please *NOT* suggest people *STUPID* ideas like filtering on
> arbitrary bits inside an address!? Thank you.

I was just testing out how others feel about this...

> (Who indeed is not calling Marco stupid, as he is one of those people
>  who is not stupid, he sometimes just has a wrong idea, just like  
> me ;)

Just testing the waters, the solution you suggested is more practical  
but you know as well as i do that there are those people out there who  
just filter out any inetnum object which matches *dsl* or *dhcp* which  
is about the same.

MarcoH



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