From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 28 00:52:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA28374 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 00:52:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA28366 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 00:52:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA17572 for chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:51:59 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA21264; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:33:09 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970328093309.KZ05370@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:33:09 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM -- Aren't you the person....? (fwd) References: <27919.859223994@time.cdrom.com> <199703280712.XAA02532@kithrup.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199703280712.XAA02532@kithrup.com>; from Sean Eric Fagan on Mar 27, 1997 23:12:21 -0800 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > 2. Net/2 and later have a nice "reject" feature for 'route'. So you can do > things like: > > echo -n 'Adding route black holes: ' > echo -n 'Cyberpromo' ; route add -net 205.199.212.0 127.0.0.1 -reject > echo -n 'SallyNet' ; route add -net 207.238.142.0 127.0.0.1 -reject > echo -n 'Earthlink' ; route add -net 204.119.177.0 127.0.0.1 -reject The only drawback of this is that all the MXes will also have to do it. I doubt i can convince my provider for this, but i need his MX in case our link is down temporarily. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)