In message <3E9487C8.6040603@centive.com>, John Stracke writes: >Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > >>Correct. Those who didn't learn from AS7007 (yes, AS7007 screwed up - but how >>many *other* AS believed it as gospel truth?) will shoot themselves in the fo >ot >>eventually, with or without this function. >> >> >Well, yes; but just because it's possible to shoot yourself in the foot >doesn't mean you want to make it easy for other people to shoot you in >the foot--which would be the effect of enabling this blackhole feature >by default. > Agreed. The function itself is reasonable, but it should only be used in private by consenting adult ISPs. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)