[125196] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP hijack from 23724 -> 4134 China?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen van Aart)
Fri Apr 9 18:34:22 2010
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:33:47 -0700
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BBF92F4.1030700@splio.fr>
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Benjamin Billon wrote:
>> And that is wrong why exactly? ;-)
> Nah, I'm not answering that =D
> Nice try, though.
Hah ;-)
> This is also blocking Sina, Netease, Yahoo.cn and other major Chinese
> ISP/ESP. Am I the only to think this is not very smart?
It depends. I'am not a fan of country blocking. But in my case it can
work for a home server. You could adapt the list and block port 22 only
for production servers where you can't expect to never have email from
China, but can safely block brute force ssh attacks.
Regards,
Jeroen