RE: black hat .cn networks

[<mdevney () teamsphere com>]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Alex Bligh wrote:

> > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> > > How quickly can CN be firewalled anyway?
> >
> > As quickly as you can write route-map filters
>
> I just love the way (some) Americans bleat about their
> supposed constitutional rights to have their packets
> passed between any given pair of networks, but (perhaps
> others) are quite happy to route-map out entire
> subcontinents on the basis there might be a few
> (i.e. statistically insignificant number of)
> trouble makers there... Somehow I just can't
> imagine someone suggesting AOL / Earthlink
> (& I've seen plenty of 'interesting' packets
> from there) are blackholed for the same reason
> would get away with this on NANOG.
Personally, I'd *love* to firewall Earthlink and AOL... As well as
/dev/null all their spam and g-line them from the IRC servers of the world
and block all access from/to AIM and friends.  

But, alas and alack, that darned responsibility thin...

Matthew Devney