Welcome the Internet version of "Too big to fail". I like the corollary: If it's too big to fail, it's too big, and needs to be broken up. Otherwise, we get an oligarchy,
-----Original Message----- From: Seth Mattinen [mailto:sethm@rollernet.us] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:27 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Atrivo/Intercage: Now Only 1 Upstream
Lamar Owen wrote:
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 13:34:22 Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
On Sep 17, 2008, at 1:32 PM, David Ulevitch wrote:
At the end of the day, nobody is going to drop packets for amazon's IP space.
I'm afraid reality disagrees with you - there already are networks doing it.
Indeed. Google's e-mail servers get on the various DNSBL's frequently.
I occasionally get in to an argument with a customer who is trying to get mail from someone after a spam run came out of a google mail server and landed it on a DNSBL. The argument presented to me always boils down to "Google could never do anything wrong" or "Google is too big to do anything wrong" and I should immediately stop recommending any DNSBL that would dare to block Google.
~Seth