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A comment on Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach. Parent comment

Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by greyface- on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:47AM (#32663781)
BGP absolutely does allow you to tell your peers to filter traffic before passing it to you. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7999.html
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Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by cowtools on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:51AM (#32663868)
This is just IP-based filtering, which is useless as the attacker can purchase more IP space.

What you need is something like a whitelist-by-public-key or hashcash or something.

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