Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
Jeffrey Haas
jhaas at nexthop.com
Mon Oct 29 19:26:07 UTC 2001
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:28:47PM -0800, Paul Vixie wrote:
> Bad for whom? Only for the sender? Does this sender have rights
> which should supercede the property rights of recipients and of
> infrastructure owners? If so then who gets to decide whether mail
> is legitimate or not? The sender again? If so then why should
> anyone ever be allowed to filter out "spam", either as a recipient,
> or as an infrastructure owner?
As an infrastructure owner, the important thing is that if you're
going to announce reachability, it should be real. If you blackhole
stuff in the middle of a netblock and distribute it as an untainted
netblock in your BGP, you're depriving people of clean routes.
Other than that, exercise your policy to your heart's content.
--
Jeff Haas
NextHop Technologies
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