[87809] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: do bogon filters still help?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Wed Jan 11 14:16:17 2006
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@world.std.com>
To: fw@deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:14:12 -0500 (EST)
Cc: william@elan.net ("william(at)elan.net"), nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <87irsqr45p.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> from "Florian Weimer" at Jan 11, 2006 07:49:22 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> * william elan net:
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> > For those doing similar exercise, you might want to look at rephrased
> > version of rfc330 listed blocks:
> > http://www.completewhois.com/iana-ipv4-specialuse.txt
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> You should move 192.88.99.0/24 from SPECIAL to YES (although you
> shouldn't see source addresses from that prefix, no matter what the
> folks at bit.nl think). 169.254.0.0/16 should be NO (otherwise it
> wouldn't be link-local).
Good example as to why to use authoratative sources only.
Completewhois is far from that. (it's a good effort though..
so thanks william).
-M<
