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RE: williams spamhaus blacklist


From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak () ai net>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:19:03 -0400


But it's ok when AboveNet does it?...or actually does much worse by
secretly and arbitrarily blackholing various networks at will, while
advertising connectivity to those networks to their BGP customers and
peers?


So why keep connectivity to them? A contract term? Now that you know of the
policy and aren't very happy about it, why not change providers -- you
already have a few. :)

I think anyone who blackholes sites within their own network should take the
specifics with a community that clueful customers can use to route-around
them, but obviously its their network, and whoever is setting up the
blackholes can decide that for themselves. Just a suggestion.

This way, blackholes designed to protect clue-light customers can be used
with little detriment to clueful customers (once the communities are used
and well-described/published).

Just my idea.

Deepak Jain
AiNET



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