On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Randy Bush wrote:
So every day some poor NOC person has to search these folk down with the great tools we have, send email, get told they're nazi idiots, ...
So what do folk do about this?
Design a Go-Away MIB, register it with IANA, convince equipment vendors to support the MIB such that there is a filter table of allowed addresses for SNMP queries and anyone not on that list gets the Go-Away MIB. The MIB just needs a String that says Go Away (or your choice of message) and a few other items that return random numbers. Or someone could do a Tony Bates impression and collect the naughty SNMP prober data from various providers and post a weekly hall of shame report to this list. If there are a significant number of non-providers then this list could also be posted on a USENET snmp group and on a web page. Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com