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RE: Need BOGIES list

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Foster)
Fri Jul 8 15:49:58 2005

In-Reply-To: <4634.210.86.28.126.1120703113.squirrel@210.86.28.126>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:30:28 +1200 (NZST)
From: "Mark Foster" <blakjak@blakjak.net>
To: "Mark Foster" <blakjak@blakjak.net>
Cc: "O'Neil,Kevin" <oneil@oclc.org>,
	"Geoff White" <geoffw@cybertribe.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


>>
>> I went to http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space and grep-ed
>> for APNIC (Asia-Pacific Network Information Center) to get the following
>> list.  For the church email site that I support I block wholesale /8 IP
>> address ranges.  I assume that for our church we will never get email
>> from an APNIC site.
>>
>
> *snip*
>
> Great, if you intend to never correspond with 202/8, 203/8 and 210/8 you
> just nuked most of New Zealand and a lot of Australia at the same time.
>
> You might find that being a _tad_ more specific is useful. Believe it or
> not, theres a lot of legit business conducted between Australasia and the
> rest of the world...
>
> Mark.
>

Sorry for replying again, but a quick google revealed this:

http://www.okean.com/asianspamblocks.html
(note the paragraph reccomending not blocking greater than /16 at a time)

And more specifically:

http://www.okean.com/china.html

This is probably what you're after, if you wish to block only China.

Mark.

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