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Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mans Nilsson)
Wed Aug 13 05:25:15 2003

Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:24:37 +0200
From: Mans Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>, nanog@merit.edu
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Subject: Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Date: Wed, Au=
g 13, 2003 at 10:14:22AM +0100 Quoting Stephen J. Wilcox (steve@telecomplet=
e.co.uk):
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> What if the people running the boxes are irresponsible, perhaps even harb=
oring=20
> malicious intent

surely, you have an AUP? Then, null0 is your friend.=20
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> I dont have control of all end nodes but I do control my edge.

So give up trying to control the actions of the end nodes by
destroying the edge. Make sure that complaints reach the correct
responsible person. Limit your involvement to careful excerpts from
your customer/IP-address database, or better yet, register them in
the RIR registry so that others having complaints can reach them
without wasting your time.

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M=E5ns Nilsson         Systems Specialist
+46 70 681 7204         KTHNOC
                        MN1334-RIPE

Your CHEEKS sit like twin NECTARINES above a MOUTH that knows no BOUNDS --

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