full-disclosure - A rather newbie question

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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405030918180.1326@troll160.uunet.ca>
From: stephen.perciballi at mci.com (Stephen Perciballi)
Subject: A rather newbie question

On Sun, 2 May 2004, Italy Anonymous Remailer wrote:

> morning_wood spewed forth:
> >since when is it the ISP's job to "protect your network" ????
>
> Did you actually read what he said? He *IS* attempting to protect his
> network. What's wrong with asking your ISP to null route an abusive
> host? Its pretty common practise, especially when the network that an
> abusive host resides on doesnt give a shit. Go back to your XSS, kiddie;
> the grown-ups are trying to talk.

It's actually not.  You shouldn't really be null routing netblocks that
you aren't routing.  Filter them out towards your customer would be better
practice.  However that's probably not going to happen on a $40/month
contract.

>
> _______________________________________________
> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
> Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
>