[186629] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: de-peering for security sake
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Sat Dec 26 09:19:24 2015
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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 08:19:10 -0600 (CST)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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How much is an acceptable standard to the community? Individual /32s ( or /64s)? Some tipping point where 50% of a /24 (or whatever it's IPv6 equivalent would be) has made your naughty list that you block the whole prefix?
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
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Midwest Internet Exchange
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
To: "Dan Hollis" <goemon@anime.net>
Cc: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net>, "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2015 1:00:35 AM
Subject: Re: de-peering for security sake
> On Dec 25, 2015, at 22:16 , Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2015, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> Merely because people are asleep at the switch does not give those of us in a position to understand the consequences license to abuse our position.
>
> At what point do you cut the wire? How abusive is acceptable?
IMHO, you never cut the wire. You may filter selectively, but cutting the wire comes with far more collateral damage than actual useful effect.
Owen