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Re: Open relays and open proxies

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Thu Apr 24 18:08:10 2003

Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:07:45 -0400
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <g3of2v4lbm.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu




--On Thursday, April 24, 2003 9:50 PM +0000 Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com> 
wrote:

>
>> On the other hand, NJABL.ORG lists 255K open relays, 170K open proxies,
>> and a spattering of dialups and other listings.  This is way beyond ACLs
>> that I could even imagine thinking about :-)
>
> anyone who was facile with perl could transform a full list of open relays
> or proxies into something that avibgpd could use, so that you could have
> your access controls implemented as routes rather than acl's.  if you


Which is exactly what opm.blitzed.org's BGP feed does ;)

(I was taking avibgpd -> zebra for explosion, but when the BGP box comes 
back from the dead, will be native avibgpd)



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