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RE: Bogon filtering (don't ban me)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Rosowski)
Mon Dec 6 12:58:41 2004

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 09:58:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Rosowski <rosowskij@ie.ymp.gov>
To: "Church, Chuck" <cchurch@netcogov.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <B6621ED4D0AD394BBA73CA657DFD8976069144@MSPEXBE01.wamnet.inc>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> 	Just thinking out loud, but is there any reason that this
> route-server methodology couldn't be applied to other 'undesirable'
> destinations, such as the world's top spammers, phishing web sites, etc?
> Maybe break them up into different communities, so subscribers can pick
> which ones they want to filter.

Sounds like a good idea, though with the administrative overhead of 
managing such a project, as much as I'd like to see something like that 
offered for free, it would most likely have to be a subscription based 
service.

You're also talking a hell of a lot more information in your routing 
table, since at this point we're talking some pretty granular routes.  I 
mean if people complain about 150K+ routes now?

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