[52678] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Who does source address validation? (was Re: what's that smell?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danny McPherson)
Tue Oct 8 12:38:27 2002
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>
Reply-To: danny@tcb.net
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 10:30:42 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Yes, but if i continue in my ideal situation of people
> (mostly) filter their bgp customers, so they won't announce the
> 1918 space, or similar. even the large peers filter out each other
> so they don't pick up 1918 announcements. Plus people use Robs
> "Secure IOS Template" to drop extraneous bgp announcements for
> unregistered/unassigned space (from IANA).
What you're doing makes plenty of sense, we agree
on that. I just wanted to be sure folks understood
it doesn't validate "valid" sources.
-danny
