[apnic-talk]Re: [nznog] people blocking "all APNIC space"
Well thank you for posting here regarding this seemingly ongoing
problem stemming it seems from APNIC allocation policy changes
of late. I have recently forwarded these postings from Nznog along
to APNIC for their attention as I an CC'ing this one as well.
Patrick Quinn-Graham wrote:
> I have in the last two days watched hundreds of connections come in to my
> smtp server, all of which comes from an ISP in Taiwan.
>
> I am progressivly just blocking large chunks of their address space.
>
> If I had the time or the knowledge of where to find the info I would
> block the entire reagon. (Why can't they see the We don't relay without
> authentication and leave?)
>
> Granted, however, this is blocking them from wasting my mailservers time
> deciding to reject their relay attempts. I can certainly understand the
> frustration that people would get.
>
> Sorry if this is off topic... I don't post here often, and will probably
> not again for a while.
>
> Cheers,
> Patrick.
>
> 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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