[65670] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu Dec 4 17:50:16 2003
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 00:46:00 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
Cc: Chris Lewis <clewis@nortelnetworks.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <3FCFB833.1020801@outblaze.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Petri Helenius writes on 12/4/2003 5:36 PM:
>
>> And why would blocking the /24 be appropriate instead of matching the
>> registry?
>
>
> I would refer you to the huge number of netblocks out there that stay
> at /16 or larger size, with the upstream not SWIP'ing or otherwise
> delegating netblocks in APNIC (or wherever, such as an rwhois server)
> as they provision IPs.
And I refer you to the blocks which are properly registered down to the
/29 level and
you are saying that if you are a good citizen collateral damage is
recommended
regardless because antispammers are either lazy or technically incompetent
or like their ego boosted by intentional collateral damage?
Pete
