Unwanted Traffic Removal Service (UTRS)

Wed Oct 8 16:10:37 UTC 2014

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 04:02:21PM -0000, John Levine wrote:
> >information. But... (aside from any local safety net filter), it's quite
> >a leap to allow a single entity to inject blackholes for any prefix.
> 
> Spamhaus has been distributing their DROP list by BGP for years.  The
> world hasn't ended, and I can't recall the last time it had a
> plausible false positive.

The Spamhaus context is different: I know people take that DROP BGP feed
and converting it into ACLs applicable locally on their mailservers, I
don't know of people injecting these prefixes straight into the core.

Kind regards,

Job