RE: Question on Blocking an ISP.

From: * KAPIL * (kapil@kapilville.com)
Date: 12/04/02

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To: "'Brian L. Johnson'" <blj8@blj8.com>, "'Chris'" <chris@jynx.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:55:31 -0600

    I highly doubt that 99% of email traffic you receive from aol.com is
    SPAM. Most likely, the email headers have been fudged to appear as if
    they originated from aol.com. ...and I don't think wholesale blocking of
    IPs is a prudent practice. First off, AOL, as I mentioned, is
    huge....why would you want to cut off your user base from communicating
    with the user base of the largest ISP in the world? Secondly, it is just
    against the spirit in which the internet was created. The idea, for
    better or for worse is to keep the networks connected together....if
    everyone started blocking everyone else...pretty soon we'd have islands
    of IP networks and the internet wouldn't be too internetworked.

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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Brian L. Johnson [mailto:blj8@blj8.com]
    Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 12:24 PM
    To: Chris
    Cc: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Re: Question on Blocking an ISP.

    The Entity currently known as Chris emitted:

    >I'm blocking these ips though IPchains, but i really would like to know

    >how to get every class owned by aol so i can block them all.
    >
    >Receiving mail from aol is no big thing to me, considering 99.9% of the

    >time is junk or spam.
    >
    >Is there some way to whois arin on a nic handle to get all the classes?

    # whois -h whois.arin.net aol

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