[71529] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu Jun 17 03:02:08 2004
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:00:19 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Rob Nelson <ronelson@vt.edu>
Cc: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.1.20040615231542.024db670@pop.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Rob Nelson wrote:
>
>> Eventually all the "bad" customers end up with the same ISP, then
>> filtering is as easy as running loose uRPF and filtering on their AS
>> on input.
>
>
>
> And that's why we can all safely dump anything from aol.com into
> /dev/null, right? ;)
>
That´s somewhat to the same urban legends of spam being sourced off Asia
instead of Florida. In our research which compares a few metrics to the
number of incidents exceeding certain tresholds AOL (if we´re talking
about AS1668 here) comes up quite favourably. Not your model student but
compared to a lot of population out there, very nice.
Pete
