[93339] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [c-nsp] [Re: huge amount of weird traffic on poin-to-point ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Thu Nov 9 18:41:32 2006
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:39:36 -0500
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Cc: andrew@profitability.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <86wt64b3kd.fsf@midgard.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
>
> <andrew2@one.net> writes:
>
>>> Steve's 100% spot-on here. I don't have bogon filters at all and it
>>> hasn't hurt me in the least. I think the notion that this is somehow
>>> a good practice needs to be quashed.
>> Some people don't use condoms with hookers either. Just because they
>> haven't caught anything yet doesn't make it a smart practice.
>
> On the other hand, compulsive hand washing has never been shown to
> keep disease away, and may actually cause dry skin and other
> unintended side effects.
>
Speaking as someone with a degree in Molecular Biology (gasp!) the
dry/damaged skin can actually be a way to increase the susceptibility to
bacterium/virons.
As for bogon filtering...when there is a perfectly good, perfectly
responsible bogon source you can BGP peer with that is rigorous in its
maintenance of good data... why fight it? Sanity check their feed, call
it a day. Maintaining your own bogon list is a nightmare.
Someone (years ago) said... why would I want to pay to move bogon
traffic across my network when its only going to get dropped by the next
hop anyway -- as a justification for filtering bogons.
Deepak
