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Re: do bogon filters still help?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Wed Jan 11 14:28:36 2006

From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@world.std.com>
Cc: william@elan.net ("william(at)elan.net"), nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:28:03 +0100
In-Reply-To: <200601111914.k0BJECTJ007314@world.std.com> (Martin Hannigan's
	message of "Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:14:12 -0500 (EST)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


* Martin Hannigan:

>> 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. 

But most authoritative sources are too shy to make explicit
operational recommendations. 8-)

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