On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Simon Byrnand wrote:
At 10:30 15/02/2005, Neil Bertram wrote:
203.x.x.x is hardly a subnet though, its probably a large part of the world ;-)
Given the number of references to "jp", "in" and "cn" in the list Joe produced, it's a not-insignificant portion of the world's population. Well over a quarter, and probably ends up at about a third once you add together the other bits. 'merkins regularly go wildly excessive in their responses to things. Last ISP I worked for had their whole /18 blocked by a company that had seen a single attempt to probe their network. Since we couldn't e-mail them, it required faxes being sent every two hours for over a day before they removed the block. Why bother? Because a number of our customers were paying for web hosting with the company. -- Matthew Poole "Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer."