[3872] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Access to the Internic Blocked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Sat Aug 24 00:45:14 1996
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:17:26 +1000."
<199608212317.JAA11529@nico.aarnet.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:35:04 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> The only justification I hear when I question this is a) "this is some
> kind of proxy security mechanism for our clients" (really!) or b)
> "whats loose source routing anyway?"
I've actually heard a third one, which is "I don't want someone to use me
for transit without paying for it." When I asked, "did you catch somebody
doing that?" they said "well, no, but it seems like a big hole anyway."
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