On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 4:48 PM Chris Knipe <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 9:53 PM Christopher Morrow <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Maybe asking from the get-go: >> "What are you trying to do?" >> >> because the question asked is fraught with peril and disaster... > > > Why? When you have a serious problem with a specific ASN, it's not > unreasonable to drop traffic to that entire ASN.
isn't the question though not ASN but 'country' ? > When you have a serious problem predominantly originating from a certain > country, why is it unreasonable to drop traffic to that entire country? Sure, where is 74.125.0.0/24 originated from? There's not really a simple answer in bgp for this ;( > Just because I own an ASN and participate in the world of BGP, doesn't mean I > *must* accept everyone's traffic from all over the world. My network, my > rules(1) > sure, and you can drop whatever you want, my point was that it's not really straight forward which ip is which country over time :( > (1) my as in the ASN whom choose to drop prefixes for an entire ASN and/or > country. > >
