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Re: Implications of v6 on application level rate limiting...



Alexander Mayrhofer wrote:
[..]
> A simple approach would be to aggregate requests by prefix (/64 or /56
> or even /48?), and use that prefix instead of the full IP adress. This
> problem is not specific to our WHOIS use case, but will show up in SMTP
> rate limiting, ssh blacklisting applications, SIP registration servers,
> etc..

Indeed, that is the most simple and obvious approach: per 'level' eg
chunked something in order of /64, /48, /40, /36, /32 if X
hosts/upper-levels in that level do something bad you aggregate to the
next level.
X could vary per level of course.

Very crude, but very effective, as at a /32 you will have blocked the
full ISP if they are 'bad' as seen from your policy point of view.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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