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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: blocking unallocated subnets
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, John S. Bucy wrote: I work for a large email provider and we've run into trouble delivering mail to certain sites after bringing up new servers in a recently allocated subnet of 72/8. Apparently, some folks decided it would be a good policy to protect their nameservers from ddos attacks to silently drop requests from unallocated subnets. So they obtained a list of subnets at some point in the past, deployed it and then never updated it. Welcome to 2002. Have a look at http://69box.atlantic.net/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
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