[106895] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Fri Aug 15 12:12:41 2008
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:12:32 -0400
In-Reply-To: <48A5A72B.50305@psg.com> (Randy Bush's message of "Fri,
15 Aug 2008 08:56:27 -0700")
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> writes:
>> 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.
I agree 100%, I'm just acknowledging reality and suggesting that we
should not promulgate practices which don't take into account the skew
between best-implementation-and-followthrough and oversight-by-PHB.
-r
