[79446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The power of default configurations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Apr 7 14:14:16 2005
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 08:13:42 -1000
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> So, this highlights some good operational practices in networking and
> DNS-applications, but doesn't answer how 1918 is 'different' or 'special'
> than any other ip address. I think what I was driving at is that putting
> these proposed road blocks in bind is akin to the 'cisco auto secure'
> features.
when you attempt to solve a routing problem by addressing tricks,
you're gonna pay for it forever in ever-expanding ways. this is
just one of them.
and, through the brilliance of the ivtf, it has been perpetuated
in ipv6.
randy
