[29845] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RBL-type BGP service for known rogue networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Fri Jul 7 19:57:11 2000
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 19:42:21 -0400
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
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Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
> The only downsides I saw in it is that our network was not notified prior to
> the blackholing (although many avenues where publicly available) and I think
> that subnet is STILL (despite many, many requests and 4 years later) listed
> on black lists even though its neither being black holed or utilized by
> spammers. However, I wouldn't be surprised if some overzealous netadmin
> came across one of those lists and threw it in for good measure. Not my
> problem anymore, but UUNet's next customer who gets that block may be in for
> a surprise...
The organized blackhole lists used by many people are one thing. Blocks
put up by individuals are something completely different. You may never
see all of those blocks removed.
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