small vent

Sat Jun 27 15:55:20 UTC 1998

Hi,

One reason might be that clueless folk in the US that complain to APNIC or
RIPE (or NANOG) directly instead of looking stuff up in the appropriate
whois database ("ARIN has all the IP information, right?") and complaining
to the people who can actually do something about the problem.

Another reason might be that until very recently, sendmail shipped with
relay enabled by default and very little in the way of easily understood
(particularly by non-native English speakers) documentation on how to
disable relaying in the shipped tarball.

Not that either matters, of course.  Everyone has the same access to
knowledge and skills as ISPs in the US, right?  Besides, it is so much more
productive (or at least cathartic) to whine to a US based mailing list that
targets ISPs in North America.

If you think blocking all of Europe/Northern Africa/Former Soviet Union and
Asia/Pacific helps you out (after all, the US is the only part of the
Internet that matters, right?), knock yourself out.  To give you a hand:
APNIC allocates out of 202/7, 210/7, and 61/8 (althought we haven't
allocated anything out of 211/8 to date) -- should make filters easy.

Regards,
-drc
(not speaking in any way for APNIC, after all, I've resigned)
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At 10:33 AM 6/27/98 -0400, Brian Wallingford wrote:
>Why is it that open relays are so common in European/Asian networks? 
>Granted, we still have a long way to go in the US, but at the current
>rate, I'll likely be blocking all of RIPE and especially APNIC by
>September.  How long does it take to absorb a clue?
>
>Just curious.
>
>Cheers,
>Brian
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