[184351] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to wish you hadn't forced ipv6 adoption (was "How to force
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Fri Oct 2 10:35:18 2015
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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: cortana5@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 10:36:08 -0500 (CDT)
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> Greetings,
>
> Excuse my probable ignorance of such matters, but would it not then be
> preferred to create a whitelist of proven Email servers/ip's , and just
> drop the rest? Granted, one would have to create a process to vet anyone
> creating a new email server, but would that not be easier then trying to
> create and maintain new blacklists?
That hasn't worked spectacularly well even under IPv4. There's no
reason to think it'd magically work better under v6.
... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
