[64691] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (matt@petach.org)
Thu Oct 30 19:16:29 2003
To: alex@yuriev.com (Alex Yuriev)
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:14:55 -0800 (PST)
Cc: william@elan.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310301211440.26296-100000@s1.yuriev.com> from "Alex Yuriev" at Oct 30, 2003 12:12:22 PM
From: matt@petach.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Recently, alex@yuriev.com (Alex Yuriev) wrote:
> > > Leave content filtering to the ES, and *force* ES to filter the content.
> > Its not content filtering, I'm not filtering only certain html traffic
> > (like access to porn sites), I'm filtering traffic that is causing harm to
> > my network and if I know what traffic is causing problems for me, I'll
> > filter it first chance I get.
>
> It is content filtering. You are filtering packets that you think are
> causing problems to the ES that you may not control.
> Alex
>
Alex, please re-read the first paragraph. He said
"I'm filtering traffic that is causing harm to *my* network..."
(emphasis mine).
He's not filtering out packets he thinks are causing problems
to the ES, he's filtering out packets that are causing him
problems directly, as the IS.
Matt
