[61772] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What were we saying about edge filtering?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Thu Sep 4 12:53:45 2003
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 16:52:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3F575A7C.3060601@brightok.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Jack Bates wrote:
> 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.
I'm going to take a stab at: The next 69.0.0.0/8 release? Certainly there
was some lesson learned from this, no?
