[87829] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sticky Bogons
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Thu Jan 12 02:16:07 2006
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@world.std.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:10:27 -0500 (EST)
Cc: jloiacon@csc.com (Joe Loiacono), nanog@merit.edu,
apnic-talk@apnic.net
In-Reply-To: <200601111714.k0BHEiMO015914@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> from "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" at Jan 11, 2006 12:14:44 PM
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> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:50:52 EST, Joe Loiacono said:
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> > a little help ...
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> > The same issue from China. One of our member got a block /17 from 125/8,
> > this block caused
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> The only thing likely to help is a baseball bat (although a cricket bat will
> probably serve in a pinch, and you're from that part of the world).
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> Seriously. We've been having this *SAME* problem since we started allocating
> from 68/8 or 69/8. If sites *still* haven't figured out yet how to get their
> bogon filters maintained, they need to have Team Cymru's address tattooed onto
> their skulls with a baseball bat.
No, you are incorrect. Networks need to use authoritative sources for
their information. Cymru is behind IANA, not in front. Cymru is a good
resource, but I don't hear them calling themselves authoritative.
I've never worked anywhere that I could blame a network problem on an
RBL et. al. .edu may be different, but I doubt it.
-M<
