[50601] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSPs filter?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John M. Brown)
Mon Aug 5 18:17:43 2002
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:17:19 -0700
From: "John M. Brown" <jmbrown@ihighway.net>
To: bdragon@gweep.net
Cc: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020805160318.40776.qmail@sidehack.sat.gweep.net>; from bdragon@gweep.net on Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:03:18PM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Until we have a dos called "return to sender " :)
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:03:18PM -0400, bdragon@gweep.net wrote:
>
> > Filtering piddly stuff like this without consultation is usually unwelcome
> > at best, and a disruption at worst. It is also a serious investment of
> > time and acl resources which could be better spent somewhere else. And
> > lastly, it sets a bad precedent for what ISPs "can" do to proactively
> > filter. After all, if we "can" do this, why can't we also filter illegal
> > MP3 exchanges too.
>
> One is envelope, the other is payload.
>
> Until there is some technical means of "return to sender" for IP, filtering
> bad envelopes is the next best thing.
>
