[146258] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: XO blocking individual IP's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Nov 8 10:08:23 2011
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 09:27:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <8cd9ddd28acb187bf24131339f00e806.squirrel@emailmg.ipower.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: clayton@haydel.org
> > "transit provider". Is XO the end-access provider for either you or the
> > destination site? Or are both of those on some other connection, and XO
> > is a bystander along the way?
>
> We're a direct customer. The IP's that I've seen them block have been
> both on our network and on remote networks, so I suspect their
> filtering would affect any traffic that happened to pass over XO.
Ah, ok. Well, that certainly gives them standing to be filtering the traffic;
whether you think their reasoning is justified becomes a different level of
question at that point.
I concur with you that their filtering probably isn't justified, but I suspect
you'd find your contract permits it.
Cheers,
-- jra
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