[93078] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BCP38 thread 93,871,738,435
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Oct 26 11:10:08 2006
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:07:32 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20061026093324.f56f7f5d.smb@cs.columbia.edu> (Steven
M. Bellovin's message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:33:24 -0400")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Steven M. Bellovin:
> As you note, the 20-25% figure (of addresses) has been pretty constant
> for quite a while. Assuming that subverted machines are uniformly
> distributed (a big assumption)
I doubt this assumption about distribution is valid. At least over
here, consumer-grade ISPs (think DSL with dynamic IP addresses) apply
ingress filters, while real ISPs don't. If you're lucky, you get
egress filters at some border routers, but it's not standard at all.
Customer-facing interfaces are generally unfiltered.
(But I have to admit that we recently ran into filters at an
upstream's upstream, so there's at least some BCP 38 adoption.)