Re: IP Black list?

[oogali () INTRANOVA NET (Omachonu Ogali)]

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Stuart Staniford wrote:

> I'm curious to know what folks think of the idea of a real-time blacklist
> for misbehaving IP addresses/blocks.  Some reputable person/organization
> could maintain it, trusted folks known to the co-ordinator could recommend
> IPs to blockade, and then anyone who chose to could implement the list into
> router or firewall rules.

This would add to the lag of the Internet as each packet comes across the
router, it would be checked against a blacklist. This is not a sensible
idea.  Simply null route each network you don't want accessing your
network...

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