williams spamhaus blacklist

Thu Sep 25 18:19:03 UTC 2003

> But it's ok when AboveNet does it?...or actually does much worse by
> secretly and arbitrarily blackholing various networks at will, while
> advertising connectivity to those networks to their BGP customers and
> peers?
>

So why keep connectivity to them? A contract term? Now that you know of the
policy and aren't very happy about it, why not change providers -- you
already have a few. :)

I think anyone who blackholes sites within their own network should take the
specifics with a community that clueful customers can use to route-around
them, but obviously its their network, and whoever is setting up the
blackholes can decide that for themselves. Just a suggestion.

This way, blackholes designed to protect clue-light customers can be used
with little detriment to clueful customers (once the communities are used
and well-described/published).

Just my idea.

Deepak Jain
AiNET