Re: [WISPA] Blocking ripe network ip space?

2006-03-08 Thread Butch Evans
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Eric Merkel wrote: Is there a place to get a list of currently allocated IP space by country? I am considering doing something similar but will probably not do an all out block but maybe do some connection rate limiting of IP space from those countries.

Re: [WISPA] Blocking ripe network ip space?

2006-03-07 Thread Eric Merkel
Is there a place to get a list of currently allocated IP space by country? I am considering doing something similar but will probably not do an all out block but maybe do some connection rate limiting of IP space from those countries. -Eric On 3/6/06, David E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mac

Re: [WISPA] Blocking ripe network ip space?

2006-03-06 Thread Mac Dearman
I think I am about to stir some of you up by asking this - - oh well :) 90% of spam messages to our network and 99% of the DOS attacks we are suffering are in the IP space of RIPE network and I am considering blocking all IPs from RIPE. What would be the most detrimental affect of this for

Re: [WISPA] Blocking ripe network ip space?

2006-03-06 Thread David E. Smith
Mac Dearman wrote: 90% of spam messages to our network and 99% of the DOS attacks we are suffering are in the IP space of RIPE network and I am considering blocking all IPs from RIPE. What would be the most detrimental affect of this for my clients? other than the obvious no traffic to/from