[29739] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RBL-type BGP service for known rogue networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Charlap)
Thu Jul 6 16:57:45 2000
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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 16:27:38 -0400
From: David Charlap <david.charlap@marconi.com>
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Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
>
> What I was saying is that they had already set up some type of
> blackhole system that I was lead to believe they were doing at the
> router level (not mail system level). When they had us blackhole, we
> couldn't get past their core routers. I know your next thougt is that
> they just threw us into their route filter, but my understanding is
> that they offered a service that you subscribed to and the updated the
> filter on the fly.
I don't know if this what you were observing, but the MAPS RBL can be
used in this capacity. See also:
http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl/usage.html#BGP
Of course, you'd want a different database for blocking script kiddies.
-- David
