[43974] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Haas)
Mon Oct 29 14:48:08 2001
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:26:07 -0500
From: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@nexthop.com>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20011029142607.G19133@nexthop.com>
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In-Reply-To: <g3y9lvecg0.fsf@as.vix.com>; from vixie@vix.com on Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:28:47PM -0800
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:28:47PM -0800, Paul Vixie wrote:
> Bad for whom? Only for the sender? Does this sender have rights
> which should supercede the property rights of recipients and of
> infrastructure owners? If so then who gets to decide whether mail
> is legitimate or not? The sender again? If so then why should
> anyone ever be allowed to filter out "spam", either as a recipient,
> or as an infrastructure owner?
As an infrastructure owner, the important thing is that if you're
going to announce reachability, it should be real. If you blackhole
stuff in the middle of a netblock and distribute it as an untainted
netblock in your BGP, you're depriving people of clean routes.
Other than that, exercise your policy to your heart's content.
--
Jeff Haas
NextHop Technologies
