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Getting back to the more original thread. Is there any need to keep the routing table to a smaller size. Since in theory, it creates suboptimal routing. And considering the new routers out there today should be able to handle it. Considering verio is using junipers, and they pride themselves on handling a tremendously large table. Why should we shoot for a 100,000 route table instead of 500,000 if it does not impact performance? I do understand that the 100,000 might be that actual 'installed best routes' and that the routers might in fact be dealing with a much larger route table. That might be an issue. But certainly 100,000- 500,000 installed routes, is that a problem for large backbones with high end routers? My only consideration might be the small multihomed ISPs with 2-3 providers with full BGP feeds and cisco 4000s (256meg ram). I saw one last week. I might be concerned at that level. I'd love to hear feedback. It would then justify filtering...or not. David At 21:37 -0400 7/18/02, Phil Rosenthal wrote: How is it arrogant? I read that as: a customer set up an exploitable FormMail. Verio received notice about it. Verio removed the FormMail in question. Verio asked to be removed since they corrected the problem. Verio was ignored. Verio may have some problems with not terminating spammers, and I believe this to be the truth -- I buy from verio, and Don't spam, and whenever one of my clients spam, they get terminated for it. I receive plenty of spam from verio ips, and no matter how much I complain, it never gets terminated. This is probably a scenario of asking sales rep "If I want to spam, but I pay more per meg -- Is this OK?" and getting a positive answer. That is why the NANAE people don't like verio. But, nonetheless, I don't think that putting verio's mailserver on a formmail list is accomplishing anything good, since they fixed THAT problem... --Phil -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kai Schlichting Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 6:37 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Kai Schlichting Subject: Re: verio arrogance How's THIS for Verio arrogance, going to a whole new level: http://www.monkeys.com/anti-spam/filtering/verio-demand.ps Details were on the SPAM-L list Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:51:05 EDT: Verio threatens to sue Ron Guilmette over the IP 208.55.91.59 appearing on his FormMail.pl open-proxy/formmail server DNSBL. And given the ever-increasing number of spammers now hopping onto Verio tells me that Verio must be well down the spiral of death (spammers seem to be attracted by NSP's going chapter 7/11, or who are getting close), or else the dozen-or-so automated messages going to [email protected] every week complaining about connections (real or attempted) to hosts under my control, and originating from their spamming customers would have shown any results over time. I don't need connectivity to 208.55.0.0/16. I really don't, and I have not the slightest tolerance for litigious, small-minded, panic-lawyer-dialling scum like this. /etc/mail$ grep 208.55 access.local 208.55 550 Access for FormMail spam and litigious scum denied - XXXX Verio in their XXXXXXXX XXX - we block more than just 208.55.91.59 - Spammers must die - see http://www.monkeys.com/anti-spam/filtering/verio-demand.ps /etc/mail$ PS: I also have zero tolerance for Nadine-type spam-generating, "single-opt-in", "87% permission-based" emailers nowadays: 2 bounces or a single mail to a never-existing account, and all your /24's are off into gated.conf as a next-hop route to 127.0.0.1. And no, they won't get around that by advertising /25's. Good-bye route-prefix-filtering wars, and welcome to the war on spam, where Null0'd /28's for filtering 'undesirables' just doesn't cut it any more. Casualties like 10-15 bystanding rackspace.com customers with a "Nadine- type" mailer in neighboring IP space be damned: "move your servers into a different slum, cause da landlord's running down 'da neighborhood". -- "Just say No" to Spam Kai Schlichting New York, Palo Alto, You name it Sophisticated Technical Peon Kai's SpamShield <tm> is FREE! http://www.SpamShield.org | | | LeasedLines-FrameRelay-IPLs-ISDN-PPP-Cisco-Consulting-VoiceFax-Data-Muxe s WorldWideWebAnything-Intranets-NetAdmin-UnixAdmin-Security-ReallyHardMat h -- David Diaz [email protected] [Email] [email protected] [Pager] Smotons (Smart Photons) trump dumb photons
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