[c-nsp] IP blocks from Asian RIRs?

Antonio Querubin tony at lava.net
Fri Nov 30 17:28:33 EST 2007


On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Noel Butler wrote:

> I doubt your router will cope, there are 2892 ranges in just
> cn,kr,tw.and hk alone.
> Although APNIC is located in Brisbane, Australia, most their staff are,
> well, not aussies :) and are aware many like to block asia, so to make
> it hard I guess they split it up as much as possible in amongst the rest
> of us.

It would be easier to block by ASN and simply not accept the prefixes at 
the border.  It's a bit extreme but certainly doable and requires less 
work by the routers.

Antonio Querubin
whois:  AQ7-ARIN


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