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Yes - we have seen this quite reguarly. Specifically, the
210/8 network seems particuarly disliked.
pbi.net used to block connections from 210/8 but not from
202/7 for a good part of 2002.
We have customers complain about it every so often, but I forget
what the most recent case was - some little ISP in TX, IIRC.
aj...
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Joe Abley wrote:
> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:35:10 -0400
> From: Joe Abley <jabley at automagic dot org>
> To: nznog at list.waikato dot ac dot nz
> Subject: [nznog] people blocking "all APNIC space"
>
> There's recurring wisdom on other lists that people outside the Asia
> Pacific region routinely block "all APNIC space" in order to reduce the
> amount of spam they receive (the most recent example was on NANOG, when
> someone inferred that APNIC address space was useless because it is so
> regularly blocked).
>
> I've run MTAs numbered within 202/8 and 203/8 before, and I've never
> noticed a problem; if the practice of blocking all APNIC space was that
> commonplace, I would have expected to have noticed. Maybe I was just
> lucky, or maybe these block-happy ISPs don't include 202/8 and 203/8 in
> "all APNIC space".
>
> Anybody here noticed widespread blocking of any APNIC ranges by ISPs
> elsewhere in the world?
>
>
> Joe
>
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