[56130] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: 69.0.0.0/8 - Please update your filters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sameer R. Manek)
Wed Feb 26 10:59:03 2003
From: "Sameer R. Manek" <manek@ecst.csuchico.edu>
To: "Todd A. Blank" <todd.blank@ipoutlet.com>, <jlewis@lewis.org>,
<haesu@towardex.com>
Cc: <stephen@sprunk.org>, <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 07:58:16 -0800
In-Reply-To: <A143FE7FCBD54F49B4E5C11A5A9723B60D2B62@IPO-SRV-01.ipoutlet.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Todd A. Blank
>
> We were an early user of the 69/8 address space. I started the original
> thread on this subject back in Sept/Oct 2002. While I am very disturbed
> (but not surprised) to find out that there are still serious issues with
> networks acknowledging this allocation, this is one of the best
> suggestions I have seen for doing something to force the issue.
>
Filters once in place are rarely removed, unless the maintainers of the
filters are notified about a specific problem. Even then the filters never
completely go away. There is always a device or two in everyone's network
that have been forgotten about, with outdated filters.
Sameer
