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Re: Not announcing (to the greater internet) loopbacks/PTP/infra - how ?


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 21:08:11 +0100

William Herrin wrote on 04/10/2018 20:53:
I wonder if it would be useful to ask the IETF to assign a block of
"origination-only" IP addresses... IP addresses which by standard are
permitted to be the source of ICMP packets but which should be
unreachable by forward routing.

no - this would be abused for ddos.

Nick


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