[75851] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Best way to get of Bogon list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Fri Nov 26 00:16:56 2004
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: <alex@pilosoft.com>, "Jon Lewis" <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:45:38 +0530
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
alex@pilosoft.com wrote:
> Can someone identify the *benefits* of using bogon lists for
> unallocated space? It appears that it only hurts connectivity, but
> does not help in any significant way to enhance security.
>
> Possibly, whoever are the vendors of software that recommends this
> practice (and authors of security handbooks) should be show the error
> of their ways?
Is this where we restart the BCP38 thread and then argue that if
everybody implemented BCP38, people wouldn't need to use this?
srs
