[7608] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F means filtered ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Feb 18 11:18:47 1997
To: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@erols.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:02:23 EST."
<3.0.32.19970217100933.00c90d4c@justin.erols.com>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:13:28 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
"Justin W. Newton" writes:
> At 07:48 PM 2/16/97 -0500, Avi Freedman wrote:
> >It seems to me, Jim, that a reasonable person would assume that he allows
> >access to the services that it's supposed to provide (DNS), but reserves
> >the right to 'F'ilter services that are immaterial to the DNS functionality.
>
> I think actually the question that Jim was asking is whether Paul filters
> access to the root name server he runs based on his Spam Blacklist.
No.
The whole thing was started when Paul stated that he permitted a
particular root name server to be pinged and tracerouted "against his
better judgement", meaning he's pondered filtering particular classes
of traffic.
Perry
