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Re: what's that smell?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Wedgwood)
Tue Oct 8 03:12:16 2002

Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 00:07:58 -0700
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210080004440.17989-100000@MrServer>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:05:29AM +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

> to that end why doesnt bind ship with default zone files for rfc1918
> space as well as 127.0.0.0 ?

won't help

    On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Paul Vixie wrote:

    > the important part now so pay attention, 185GB of input was
    > dropped due to an RFC1918 source address.
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

source address, not query destination


FWIW, almost nobody filters rfc1918 packets outbound and a good
percentage of ISP customers bleed these something terrible


  --cw

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