[61764] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What were we saying about edge filtering?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Thu Sep 4 11:37:12 2003
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 10:30:04 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
Cc: Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0309040635420.171@rampart.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>
> At the edge, very near the originating host there is no reason not to
> filter these, if you find the sources you might consider asking them why
> they didn't filter these for you...
>
And what is the reason to not filter these in the backbone? Full spoof
protection at some levels is near impossible. However, bogon filtering
is not.
-Jack
