[squid-users] Good Home Cable Modem Blacklist

Casey Daniels mailinglist at cd.kcfam.net
Mon Jun 27 17:30:35 UTC 2016


My question is what is the purpose of this?  What are you trying to 
accomplish.  There maybe a different (read easier) way to accomplish 
your end goal.


On 6/27/2016 1:27 PM, Benjamin E. Nichols wrote:
> It would also be trivial to gather up all known ip ranges issued to 
> consumer cable isps and convert them to a domain name acl compatible 
> format.
>
> I will put it on the whiteboard.
>
>
> On 6/27/2016 12:21 PM, Antony Stone wrote:
>> On Monday 27 June 2016 at 19:06:17, Michael Pelletier wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know of a good blacklist of home cable modems?
>> I don't think you'll get any list of *home* cable modems, which 
>> excludes small
>> business connections as well.
>>
>> Also, with a lot of ISPs, I don't think you'll get a list of *cable* 
>> modems,
>> separate from DSL modems; many of them use combined DHCP pools for both.
>>
>> However, depending on what your reason for needing such a list is, 
>> you might
>> find that a sufficiently effective solution is to do a reverse DNS 
>> lookup on an IP
>> address and look for any of:
>>
>>     cable
>>     dsl
>>     dynamic
>>     pool
>>
>> as discrete words (often in a format such as 
>> "cable-79-35-42-183.isp.com").
>
>
>>
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>>
>>
>> Antony.
>>
>



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