Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

[Chris Marlatt <cmarlatt () rxsec com>]

Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:21:23 PDT, "Tomas L. Byrnes" said:
> > You're missing one of the basic issues with bogon sources: they are
> > often advertised bogons, IE the bad guy DOES care about getting the
> > packets back, and has, in fact, created a way to do so.
>
> But if you've seen a BGP announcement with a prefix that covers the source,
> is it really a bogon anymore?

IIRC "bogon" is specific to unallocated space. Whether it be advertised 
or not should not matter.

Regards,

        Chris