[56237] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: anti-spam vs network abuse
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Fri Feb 28 18:50:17 2003
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 28 Feb 2003 23:49:43 +0000
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0302281547400.30448-100000@thunder.xecu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Why is probing networks wrong?
i guess it's a last ditch scaling thing. i won't complain to an isp when
their customer probes my host as a result of me sending them e-mail -- but
i will drop in a local blackhole route so that i won't get any more traffic
from or to the prober's network. (if the isp thinks this is too draconian
they are welcome to contact me, which is how jon and i wound up talking a
couple of months ago.)
on the other hand if they probe my network looking for relays to see whether
any of those relays are open, then i will complain to their isp. there's an
active prober in asia right now who actually *is* an ISP, though, and so,
there's really no basis for discussion.
--
Paul Vixie
