From: Jon Lewis (no email)
Date: Fri Dec 02 2005 - 14:53:25 EST
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, John S. Bucy wrote:
> I work for a large email provider and we've run into trouble
> delivering mail to certain sites after bringing up new servers in a
> recently allocated subnet of 72/8. Apparently, some folks decided it
> would be a good policy to protect their nameservers from ddos attacks
> to silently drop requests from unallocated subnets. So they obtained
> a list of subnets at some point in the past, deployed it and then
> never updated it.
Welcome to 2002. Have a look at http://69box.atlantic.net/
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