Well we cannot really oppose this, who on this list is providing access to the entire whole internet? Obviously not abovenet. If they want to deny traffic from the tester entering their network, why not. You should make sure that no other traffic (your business) is hurt by this. Why not setup an AS with a /24 and run the tester from there? Or several of them in
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pim van Riezen" <pi@vuurwerk.nl> To: "JP Donnio" <ml-nanog@TBS-internet.com> Cc: "Peter van Dijk" <petervd@vuurwerk.nl>; <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 2:17 PM Subject: Re: No, ORBS is a good tool [WAS: Alright, ORBS sucks - next topic,please ;) [was RE: RBL-type BGPservice for known rogue networks?]] diverse
locations.
Problem is, we're just an ISP. So we'd have to get our uplinks to organize that. And since the purpose of the blackhole was beyond blocking the tester (they did have a similair block on the /32 of the tester, which was at least morally defendable), but rather to pressure us to take the thing offline, I'm afraid that moving it to another /24 will not make any difference, there'd still be 'retaliations' against the hosting ISP.
That's interesting. This would prove the Abovenet's behaviour is evil; if they can filter on the /32 but choose to filter on the /24, they are morally undefendable. Even ORBS opposers cannot support such behavior I guess!