Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

["Robert E. Seastrom" <rs () seastrom com>]

Randy Bush <randy () psg com> writes:

> > Not sure what you mean by this, but the painful reality is that most
> > stuff, once deployed, gets promptly forgotten about, much the same as
> > you might ignore a wall wart power supply under your desk until it
> > started smelling funny or stopped delivering electricity.  Thus, I
> > contend that one's routers should be configured to avoid ticking time
> > bombs.
>
> and i am saying that you should use a router configuration *system* that
> avoids ticking time bombs.  no router should be neglected and unloved.

I agree 100%, I'm just acknowledging reality and suggesting that we
should not promulgate practices which don't take into account the skew
between best-implementation-and-followthrough and oversight-by-PHB.

-r