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RE: Where are static bogon filters appropriate? was: 96.2.0.0/16 Bogons


From: "Eric Ortega" <eric.ortega () midco net>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:37:01 -0600


I think Sean raises a good point. I guess the larger picture is what are we
trying to protect and what are trying to protect that from. 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Sean
Donelan
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 3:19 PM
To: Roland Dobbins
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: Where are static bogon filters appropriate? was: 96.2.0.0/16
Bogons



On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Roland Dobbins wrote:
Sometimes, network operators have to take the bull
by the horns and develop their own systems to do a job that vendors 
simply don't understand.

Concur - but it seems that many seem to be looking for someone else to 
do
this for them (or, perhaps, the lack of someone to do it for them as an 
excuse to do nothing at all).

How much of a problem is traffic from unallocated addresses?  Backbone 
operators probably have NetFlow data which they could mine to find out. On
the other hand, how much of a problem is obsolete bogon filters causing
everytime IANA delegates another block to an RIR?

Or by the way, how much spoofed traffic uses allocated addresses?


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