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by oefrha 2443 days ago
An AS with an /8 is decidedly different from an AS with a /24. There could easily be millions of complete strangers behind a single ISP AS. Not saying you can’t choose whatever criteria for your service, but trying to pass off five-different-attacker-IPs-per-AS as fair is silly.

Edit: Even the CIDR block size isn’t a good indicator of the actual network size, due to NAT.