[37063] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: black hat .cn networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mdevney@teamsphere.com)
Mon Apr 30 20:44:42 2001
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:17:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: <mdevney@teamsphere.com>
To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>, Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Alex Bligh wrote:
>
>
> > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> >> How quickly can CN be firewalled anyway?
> >
> > As quickly as you can write route-map filters
>
> I just love the way (some) Americans bleat about their
> supposed constitutional rights to have their packets
> passed between any given pair of networks, but (perhaps
> others) are quite happy to route-map out entire
> subcontinents on the basis there might be a few
> (i.e. statistically insignificant number of)
> trouble makers there... Somehow I just can't
> imagine someone suggesting AOL / Earthlink
> (& I've seen plenty of 'interesting' packets
> from there) are blackholed for the same reason
> would get away with this on NANOG.
>
Personally, I'd *love* to firewall Earthlink and AOL... As well as
/dev/null all their spam and g-line them from the IRC servers of the world
and block all access from/to AIM and friends.
But, alas and alack, that darned responsibility thin...
Matthew Devney
