RE: Question on Blocking an ISP.

["* KAPIL *" <kapil () kapilville com>]

I highly doubt that 99% of email traffic you receive from aol.com is
SPAM. Most likely, the email headers have been fudged to appear as if
they originated from aol.com. ...and I don't think wholesale blocking of
IPs is a prudent practice. First off, AOL, as I mentioned, is
huge....why would you want to cut off your user base from communicating
with the user base of the largest ISP in the world? Secondly, it is just
against the spirit in which the internet was created. The idea, for
better or for worse is to keep the networks connected together....if
everyone started blocking everyone else...pretty soon we'd have islands
of IP networks and the internet wouldn't be too internetworked.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian L. Johnson [mailto:blj8 () blj8 com] 
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 12:24 PM
To: Chris
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Question on Blocking an ISP.


The Entity currently known as Chris emitted:

> I'm blocking these ips though IPchains, but i really would like to know

> how to get every class owned by aol so i can block them all.
>
> Receiving mail from aol is no big thing to me, considering 99.9% of the

> time is junk or spam.
>
> Is there some way to whois arin on a nic handle to get all the classes?

# whois -h whois.arin.net aol

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