Re: [nznog] people blocking "all APNIC space"

Just recently came across another blocking of 210.0.0.0/8 with chat servers. 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. -- 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:

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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:35:10 -0400 From: Joe Abley To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.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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