Re: BGP prefix filter list

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

On 5/20/19 4:26 PM, John Kristoff wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2019 23:09:02 +0000
> Seth Mattinen<sethm () rollernet us>  wrote:
>
> > A good start would be killing any /24 announcement where a covering
> > aggregate exists.
> I wouldn't do this as a general rule.  If an attacker knows networks are
> 1) not pointing default, 2) dropping /24's, 3) not validating the
> aggregates, and 4) no actual legitimate aggregate exists, (all
> reasonable assumptions so far for many /24's), then they have a pretty
> good opportunity to capture that traffic.


I'm talking about the case where someone has like a /20 and announces 
the /20 plus every /24 it contains. I regard those as garbage announcements.