[64699] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Oct 30 22:28:55 2003
To: Alex Yuriev <alex@yuriev.com>
Cc: william@elan.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:12:22 EST."
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0310301211440.26296-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:28:07 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:12:22 EST, Alex Yuriev said:
>
> > > 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.
No, he said quite clearly he's filtering packets (such as Nachi ICMP) that are
causing harm to *his* network. He gets to make a choice - filter the known
problem packets so the rest of the traffic can get through, or watch the
network melt down and nobody gets anything.
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