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Re: Bogons

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Fri Jan 28 15:23:12 2011

From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0BC136D4@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:22:24 -0500
To: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Jan 28, 2011, at 3:14 PM, George Bonser wrote:

> 
> 
>> Now that the holidays are over and IANA v4 depletion is likely days
>> away, perhaps its time to consider stripping your bogon lists down to
>> the bare minimum, and as someone else said, declare bogons dead and
>> move to martians?
>> 
>> 
>> Just sayin'
>> 
> 
> There are still some 7,000 prefixes in the v4 "full bogons" list.  These
> are such things as allocations to RIR's but have not yet been allocated.
> It's updated every four hours:
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.team-cymru.org/Services/Bogons/fullbogons-ipv4.txt
> 
> "    The traditional bogon prefixes, plus prefixes that have been
> allocated to RIRs but not yet assigned by those RIRs to ISPs, end-users,
> etc. Updated every four hours."
> 
> That is one probably best taken by BGP feed and not done manually.

Yes, I was referring to static/manual bogon list.  The Cymru BGP feed rocks.



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