[124717] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Sun Apr 4 10:44:33 2010
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 15:42:10 +0100
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BB897A7.60503@consolejunkie.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In article <4BB897A7.60503@consolejunkie.net>, Leen Besselink
<leen@consolejunkie.net> writes
>> (I saw a number in the last 2-3 days that 2-3% of spam is now being delivered
>> via SMTP-over-IPv6). You may not need that gear as much as you thought...
>
>This maybe ?:
>http://labs.ripe.net/content/spam-over-ipv6
>
>"Out of the total number of emails received, 14% were received over
>IPv6, the rest over IPv4."
RIPE NCC has been running ipv6 mail for some time, so this may be higher
than average.
>"Looking only at the number of e-mails received over IPv6, 3.5% were
>classified as spam, the rest were legitimate."
>
>But then again this is a pretty low number as well:
>
>"Looking only at the number of emails received over IPv4: 31% were
>classified as spam, the rest were legitimate."
>
>Some of us deal with 98% or more.
Don't forget it also said:
"this excludes messages already rejected by blacklisting and
greylisting ... and sent to non-existent email addresses within
the ripe.net domain"
and:
"Additionally, our statistics only take our primary MX system
into account (and not email sent from the secondary MX system to
the primary)."
--
Roland Perry
