[76203] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Fri Dec 3 08:49:23 2004
In-Reply-To: <41B0387B.2050908@nrg4u.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 14:46:27 +0100
To: Andre Oppermann <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 3-dec-04, at 10:57, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Routers would ship with the iana_reserved_block list of when they were
> manufactured. If the user is stoopid enough not to be able to get his
> filters from Cymru directly then he should not have any filtering at
> all
> because he is never going to update it anyway in the future. Ergo lots
> of black holes for newly allocated address spaces to the RIR's.
Exactly. (Unless "IANA reserved" != "unallocated" but IANA does call
unallocated space "reserved".)
> The cure will be far worse than the disease if routers would come with
> pre-configured bogon lists.
Indeed. In fact, the whole bogon filtering thing is more harmful than
useful.
> If you do any bogon filtering at all then do it with some automatically
> updating system like an BGP bogon feed from Cymru.
What exactly does this feed do for me? Wouldn't bogons be everything
that isn't in the global routing table?
