Why source-based blackhole instead of firewall drop

[msatter]

@Murmaider

@msatter

When this is so efficient then it is may interesting to transparent for the users to use a different screen to input this. Since short we have the RAW option that should be more efficient but is not that much of a difference.
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…the problem is when a user is going to edit directly in the routing section which interferes with the settings in RAW. Proposal is that the routing line is show in routing but can’t be changed in any way on the routing page. The comment is beginning with "RAW filter: " followed by the found text that the user has entered or not in the RAW section. It would also be preferable that the letters in that line is not black but gray to indicate a deferred rule.

You could simplify this by setting up a box running exabgp or quagga and have a BGP connection to the mikrotik(s).
setup a BGP community of say 666:666 and set the type to blackhole.
Then you can push these blackhole routes or retract them from all your border/edge routers from a central point.

That would be a wet dream and maybe start a bit more down to earth and have a list supplied by IntrusDave: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/blacklist-filter-update-script/89817/1