[174811] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: large BCP38 compliance testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Oct 2 11:54:16 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:10:39 +0200."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:54:01 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:10:39 +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson said:
> I have been getting pushback from people that this might be "illegal".
> Could anyone please tell me what's illegal about trying to send a packet
> with a random source address?
The *real* problem isn't the testing.
It's the assumption that you can actually *do* anything useful with this data.
Name-n-shame probably won't get us far - and the way the US works, if there's a
large cartel of BCP38-compliant providers calling out the offenders by name,
you might encounter an offender that finds it cheaper to send a lawyer chanting
'restraint of trade!' or similar rather than actually fixing their problem....
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