[59863] in North American Network Operators' Group
re: rfc1918 ignorant
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (variable@ednet.co.uk)
Wed Jul 23 09:20:17 2003
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:10:17 +0100 (BST)
From: variable@ednet.co.uk
To: Dave Temkin <dave@ordinaryworld.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0307230857210.27647-100000@ordinaryworld.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Dave Temkin wrote:
> Is this really an issue? So long as they're not advertising the space I
> see no issue with routing traffic through a 10. network as transit. If
> you have no reason to reach their router directly (and after Cisco's last
> exploit, I'd think no one would want anyone to reach their router directly
> :-) ), what's the harm done?
If Frank's seeing the IP in his traceroute then the network concerned
isn't properly filtering traffic leaving their borders as per BCP38:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/bcp/bcp38.html
Rich
