de-peering for security sake
Daniel Corbe
dcorbe at hammerfiber.com
Fri Dec 25 16:25:30 UTC 2015
> On Dec 25, 2015, at 9:18 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
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> To the thread, not necessarily Daniel, if blocking countries\continents is a bad thing (not saying I disagree), how do you deal with the flood of trash? Just take it on the chin?
If you as an end user want to be the cyber-equivalent of a xenophobe because OMG BAD INTERNETS then be my guest. On the other hand, I’m a network operator so I don’t have the luxury of dictating to my users what they can and cannot reach.
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> The degree of splash damage by blocking this way will vary based upon what kind of network you are. Residential eyeballs? You could probably block most of a lot of things and people wouldn't notice or care, as long as it wasn't Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc.
As a residential ISP with many first and second generation American immigrants in my service footprint I can assure you this notion is patently false. People will definitely notice and care if they can’t communicate with their relatives and consume content in their home countries.
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> Mike Hammett
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Daniel Corbe" <dcorbe at hammerfiber.com>
> To: "Nick Hilliard" <nick at foobar.org>
> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 25, 2015 8:11:55 AM
> Subject: Re: de-peering for security sake
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>> On Dec 25, 2015, at 7:14 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
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>> Daniel Corbe wrote:
>>> Let’s just cut off the entirety of the third world instead of having
>>> a tangible mitigation plan in place.
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>> You mean, cut off Sweden, Ireland, Finland, Switzerland and Israel?
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>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World
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>> What an enormously silly idea.
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>> Seasons greetings to all,
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>> Nick
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> It was a stupid idea even before you corrected me.
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