Re: BCP38 exceptions for RFC1918 space

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 8/23/10 2:31 AM, Leigh Porter wrote:
> I very often see 1918 space in ICMP responses. It's quite dumb.

you wouldn't if you filtered rfc 1918 source addresses on your border.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] 
> Sent: 16 August 2010 14:27
> To: Joe Greco
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: BCP38 exceptions for RFC1918 space
>
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:50:00 CDT, Joe Greco said:
>
> > > What *possible* use case would require a 1918-sourced packet to be 
> > > traversing the public internet? We're all waiting with bated breath 
> > > to hear this one. ;)
> >
> > It's great for showing in traceroutes who the heel is.
>
> Like I said, at that point it's name-n-shame time.