[Fedora] Re: Question about hosts_access(5)

[Ed Greshko]

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
>> I have.  It's a nightmare, but unfortunately many Asian ISPs use it to
>> spam.  Makes your iptables and firewall rules rather nasty.
>    I'm not sure about 'nasty' more so than 'long'.  Take for example the 
> entire Korea network.  When the request came down to block it, this is 
> what came up when I looked up their range:
> 
>    > netmask -s 222.96.0.0:222.122.255.255         
> 222.96.0.0/255.240.0.0          222.112.0.0/255.248.0.0          
> 222.120.0.0/255.254.0.0          222.122.0.0/255.255.0.0  
>    That meant adding 4 lines to our router's access file.  A file that's 
> rather large as it is.
> 

Korea is one of the most "wired" countries in the world.  As such they need 
a substantial amount of address space.  They do not pick their own space on 
the internet.  It is assigned to them.

The fact that the majority of folks in Korea run MS-Windows and many have 
been hijacked as spam-bots is regrettable.  It seems to have had the effect 
of ill informed folks labeling Koreans as spammers.

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