North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: What were we saying about edge filtering?
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 06:37:57AM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Matthew Sullivan wrote: > > More whining and bitching from me ... sorry... > > > > So who thinks allowing anyone to route to or from IANA Reserved blocks > > (Bogons) is acceptable? > > > > Technically these packets are 'routed' correctly, they are perhaps not > filtered, but thats another story entirely. > > > A few captured packets.... > > > > 15:42:41.434384 1.6.145.24.1116 > 203.101.254.254.53: S > -- snip -- > > > > Is there any need to route bogons? Is there any reason why it cannot be > > filtered (I appreciate 224-239 is a different story)....? > > > > At the edge, very near the originating host there is no reason not to > filter these, if you find the sources you might consider asking them why > they didn't filter these for you... I would ask your upstreams to filter out such "worthless" traffic. My opinion is fairly clear on this topic. If I can't return it, I'm not going to accept it. Fairly simple policy. - jared > > These packets were all originated on the other side of the Pacific to > > Telecom NZ. > > > > and they travelled well apparently. -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from [email protected] clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
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