[77435] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Please Check Filters - BOGON Filtering IP Space 72.14.128.0/19
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Jan 20 09:49:42 2005
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:16:14 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: thegameiam@yahoo.com, rsears@adnc.com, kurt@amnh.org,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050120144254.GD19380@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:42:54 -0500, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
> No, cisco providing a time sensitive feature like this
> implies free upgrades to repair this critical defect. Just like
> they give out free software to people without contracts when
> they have a major security vulnerability.
>
> Seems like this falls in the same category to me.
Analogies suck, but look at (for example) Norton AntiVirus. You pay
for a year of virus definition updates. Then when the year runs out,
Symantec is not going to give you a single new virus definition even
if there's a new worm around that dwarfs Sobig, Klez and all the other
viruses put together ... I can see brand C following a similar
strategy with their bogon updates.
[and that's not a new thing I guess - every single virus that comes
down the pike is written up in the press as the worst and most
virulent virus yet]
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
