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Re: New IPv4 Allocation to ARIN

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun Jan 18 09:19:25 2004

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:17:32 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Pete Templin <petelists@templin.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <400A8A3D.3060401@templin.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Pete Templin wrote:

>
> He has a reason: that virus was melting down his network (and was 
> melting down lots of networks).
>
I point to the word "backbone". If your dial servers melt, block the 
packets at dial
servers, donīt launch weapon of mass packet destruction to all traffic. 
Filtering
should be more targeted so it does not kill or hamper what itīs supposed 
to protect
in the first place.

Pete



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