[7617] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F means filtered ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Tue Feb 18 14:12:16 1997
From: Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>
To: paul@vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 13:07:51 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199702181806.KAA22456@wisdom.home.vix.com> from "Paul A Vixie" at Feb 18, 97 10:06:08 am
>
> > 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. It
> > seems to be a valid question.
Paul wrote:
> Yes, I do. I have no opinion on whether spammers should or should not be
> able to reach any given root name server, including "mine", but for the time
> being I lack the hardware needed to firewall f.root-servers.net differently
> than I do the rest of my network.
Uh, that is a serious issue.
If you filter the root server that you run according to your "spam list",
then you are not providing a public service on equal footing to all comers.
I dislike spam and UCE as much as the next person, but I find this kind of
policy statement and implementation abhorrent when you're talking about a
*public* resource.
If you wish to do that its fine with me, but then F.root-servers.net needs
to be replaced by a machine which is not subject to these filters.
Root servers aren't private things, expecially when you hold them out to the
public...
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