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--- Begin Message ---Just recently came across another blocking of 210.0.0.0/8 with chat servers.
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- Subject: Re: [nznog] people blocking "all APNIC space"
- From: Steve Phillips <steve at focb dot co dot nz>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:27:02 +1200
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While probably not considered by many to be a productive service :-) it does still show attitudes that say "APNIC ? forget it" and this attitude appears to be markedly prevalent amongst US based admins and now appears to be expanding to cover services other than e-mail.
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Steve.
At 11:46 30/04/2003 +1200, Alastair Johnson wrote:
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 > > _______________________________________________ > Nznog mailing list > Nznog at list.waikato dot ac dot nz > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog > --- Never attempt with words what can be achieved with a flame thrower. _______________________________________________ Nznog mailing list Nznog at list.waikato dot ac dot nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog_______________________________________________ Nznog mailing list Nznog at list.waikato dot ac dot nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog--- End Message ---