Re: BGP hijack from 23724 -> 4134 China?

[Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick () zill net>]

Benjamin Billon wrote:
> > > So basically, the idea is to disconnect China's Internet even more
> > > than what it inflicts to itself?
> > And that is wrong why exactly? ;-)
> Nah, I'm not answering that =D
> Nice try, though.
> > > How fun. What was the FCC/Comcast case about again?
> > It's only port 25, at least here:
> > http://www.okean.com/antispam/iptables/iptables.html
> This is also blocking Sina, Netease, Yahoo.cn and other major Chinese
> ISP/ESP. Am I the only to think this is not very smart?
>
> If you think Chinese DUL would be interesting, please tell me.

This DID actually bite my company about 3 years ago.

A customer went to China (usually in NYC) and could not send email
through the mail server because they were using POP-before-SMTP instead
of the mail submission port .

Upon return, the customer switched mail service away from us.

--Patrick