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Re: "Everyone should be deploying BCP 38! Wait, they are ...."


From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:40:52 -0500

Barry is a well respected security researcher. I'm surprised he posted this.

In his defense, he did it over a year ago (June 11, 2012). Maybe we should ask him about it. I'll do that now....

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TTFN,
patrick

On Feb 18, 2014, at 13:31 , Dave Bell <me () geordish org> wrote:

That article is terrible.

Looking at the stats provided, only 2582 unique AS's were tested.
http://www.cidr-report.org/as2.0/#General_Status has over 46k AS's
currently in the routing table.

This means they have tested around 5% of the AS's on the Internet.

Dave


On 18 February 2014 17:20, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:

Here's a piece which uses the MIT ANA data to assert that the job is
mostly done already.

Unless I'm very much mistaken, it appears that a large percentage of the
failed BCP 38 spoofing tests listed in that data are actually due to
customer side NAT routers dropping packets...

which is of course egress filtering rather than ingress filtering, and
thus doesn't actually apply to our questions.

Am I interpreting that correctly?

http://www.senki.org/everyone-should-be-deploying-bcp-38-wait-they-are/

(Oh, and bcp38.info is now the number 2 Ghit for "bcp38"; thanks to 5 new
contributors for signing up to help so far this week.)

Cheers,
- jra
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