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Re: RBL-type BGP service for known rogue networks?

  • From: Rodney Joffe
  • Date: Fri Jul 07 16:59:44 2000 

John Kristoff wrote:
> 
> Perhaps I wasn't clear...
> 
> The organization in question does nothing wrong... but somehow gets in
> the blackhole list either by someone spoofing their netblocks, from
> faked complaints or other means.  Thus, causing the said organization to
> be denied connectivity by some malicious person(s).

If you are talking about any of the MAPS black holes (RBL RSS etc.) the
process of getting in there is not arbitrary. It actually takes work. So
the likelihood of an innocent bystander ending up there is close to
zero.

/rlj