[75855] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Best way to get of Bogon list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@pilosoft.com)
Fri Nov 26 01:08:00 2004
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:02:27 -0500 (EST)
From: alex@pilosoft.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <018901c4d376$f8ec64a0$1601a8c0@hserus.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > 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?
I dare to say that even without wholesale BCP38 implementation, benefit of
bogon-filtering unallocated space is tiny compared to cost of lost
connectivity due to the filters that aren't updated.
-alex
