[106902] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Malcolm)
Fri Aug 15 17:43:49 2008
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:43:40 +0000
From: Joe Malcolm <jmalcolm@uraeus.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <86zlneqnnb.fsf@seastrom.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Robert E. Seastrom 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. As smb so eloquently just asserted, "availability is a
>security issue too".
This is particularly but not exclusively true if they are implementing
an "overhead" function - i.e., if they are not directly in the
money-generating path. If they are, they at least have some chance at
getting some attention when not on fire. Otherwise, they will likely
be ignored until failure.
Joe
