[118752] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dealing with bogon spam ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leslie)
Wed Oct 28 12:53:41 2009
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:52:47 -0700
From: Leslie <leslie@craigslist.org>
To: John Kristoff <jtk@cymru.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091028095803.7c7f0a34@t61p>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
John Kristoff wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:24:17 +1300
> Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net> wrote:
>
>> I can't see anything on their site that provides a BGP feed of
>> prefixes allocated by RIRs, which I think is what we're talking
>> about here.
>
> We currently provide A BGP bogon route server feed for the asking,
> which are routes of 'well known' aggregate prefixes published by IANA as
> well as special and reserved netblocks documented by a IETF that should
> not be seen on the public net.
>
> Providing a feed of allocations would be the opposite approach of
> course.
>
> I suppose if there is interest and a need we could do this. Shoot
> myself or the team (info@cymru.com) a note off list if you have
> thoughts on the matter or simply want to provide some feedback into
> such a service and how it might best be used. We're always on the look
> out for things we can do to help.
>
My big issue isn't the larger blocks, it's the smaller unallocated
blocks - which anyone with a not-too-strict transit provider could
easily steal and abuse. Getting the allocated space is just another way
of finding the smaller unallocated blocks (with a bit of extra work)
