On 02/02/12 11:44, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
On 02/02/2012, at 6:59 AM, Mark Foster wrote:
In recent times (and longer ago, and across most of my previous jobs in the last 10 years or so) I have frequently found that American organisations find it easier to block large parts of APNIC in the guise of 'security' and overlook the fact that they do business with .nz and .au. Apparently it's easier to block at the /8 or even /16 than it is to apply other measures to protect ones network. Odd - having worked for one of the larger ISPes in Australia I've not seen this behaviour other than for people having bogon filters which were out of date.
I'd seen this back in 2000 or so ("IP addresses starting with 202 are Chinese spammers"), but this is about the first time in the last decade I've heard anyone mention it as a current problem. I'm prepared to believe that some of this stupidity persists (stupidity always persists somewhere), but is this still received wisdom anywhere? -- don