On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 04:02:21PM -0000, John Levine wrote: > >information. But... (aside from any local safety net filter), it's quite > >a leap to allow a single entity to inject blackholes for any prefix. > > Spamhaus has been distributing their DROP list by BGP for years. The > world hasn't ended, and I can't recall the last time it had a > plausible false positive.
The Spamhaus context is different: I know people take that DROP BGP feed and converting it into ACLs applicable locally on their mailservers, I don't know of people injecting these prefixes straight into the core. Kind regards, Job