[138734] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why does abuse handling take so long ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (goemon@anime.net)
Sun Mar 13 18:36:15 2011
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:34:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: goemon@anime.net
To: Alexander Maassen <outsider@scarynet.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D7D42D0.30604@scarynet.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011, Alexander Maassen wrote:
> On 13-3-2011 18:31, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>> On 3/13/11 7:45 AM, Alexander Maassen wrote:
>>> Why o why are isp's and hosters so ignorant in dealing with such issues
>>> and act like they do not care?
>> So, part of the problem is *your* upstream. Why didn't your upstream
>> actively remove the entire abusive netblock? Why didn't your upstream
>> contact other providers with your evidence, and together remove the
>> abusive network from the global routing tables?
> My hoster did mail, his upstream is EGI, however, EGI does not want to
> block/filter since it would pollute their routers they say.
> I asked through my hoster if they would be willing to place a simple UDP
> filter, blocking all of it. They refuse.
again make it a question of economics.
vote with your wallet, vote with your feet.
if they won't block, leave.
