[106894] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Aug 15 11:57:44 2008
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:56:27 -0700
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
In-Reply-To: <86zlneqnnb.fsf@seastrom.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> Not sure what you mean by this, but the painful reality is that most
> stuff, once deployed, gets promptly forgotten about, much the same as
> you might ignore a wall wart power supply under your desk until it
> started smelling funny or stopped delivering electricity. Thus, I
> contend that one's routers should be configured to avoid ticking time
> bombs.
and i am saying that you should use a router configuration *system* that
avoids ticking time bombs. no router should be neglected and unloved.
randy
