IPv6 filtering (was Re: IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering)

Mon Oct 12 19:48:53 UTC 2009

On Oct 12, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote:

> Marco Hogewoning wrote:
> [..]
>> As this thread has drifted off topic any way, would it for instance  
>> be a
>> good idea to simply not accept mail from hosts that clearly use
>> autoconfig ie reject all smtp from EUI-64 addresses
>
> Can you please *NOT* suggest people *STUPID* ideas like filtering on
> arbitrary bits inside an address!? Thank you.

I was just testing out how others feel about this...

> (Who indeed is not calling Marco stupid, as he is one of those people
>  who is not stupid, he sometimes just has a wrong idea, just like  
> me ;)

Just testing the waters, the solution you suggested is more practical  
but you know as well as i do that there are those people out there who  
just filter out any inetnum object which matches *dsl* or *dhcp* which  
is about the same.

MarcoH