[56737] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: route filtering in large networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Mar 12 23:59:39 2003
From: "Jack Bates" <jbates@brightok.net>
To: <mksmith@noanet.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:59:18 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
From: "Michael K. Smith"
>
> Check out http://www.cymru.com/Documents/secure-ios-template.html
>
> All of the various Bogons, including unassigned ranges, are represented
with
> a route to null0.
>
Nice, although it doesn't explain the purpose of having the routes if you
have an acl. To keep viruses from attempting to contact bogons? To stop your
internal network from surfing the bogon web which can't reply back anyways?
-Jack
