From: Chris Woodfield (no email)
Date: Sun Aug 04 2002 - 23:19:35 EDT
IMO, Commercial ISPs should never filter customer packets unless
specifically requested to do so by the customer, or in response to a
security/abuse incident.
Consumer ISPs are much more likely to have clauses in the AUPs that are
enforced premptively via packet filtering - antispoof filters (honestly,
antispoof filtering is, IMHO, the one expection to my "commercial ISPs
should not filter" rule), port blocks to prevent customers running
servers, outbound SMTP blocks to off-provider systems to stop direct-to-MX
spamming, ICMP rate limiting, et al. All of which are fine by me as long
as they clearly assert their right to do so in their AUP - that is, as
long as there's a comparable provider I can use instead.
-C
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 02:37:12PM +0000, wrote:
>
> > Good day,
> >
> > What NSPs do filter packets, and can really deal with DoS and DDoS attacks?
> >
> > -Abdullah Bin Hamad A.K.A Arabian
>
> The shorter shorter list would be the NSPs that do NOT filter
> packets. I can't think of an NSP that does not filter.
>
> --bill
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