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Re: filtering 1918 (was Re: Summary with...: Domain Name System ...)

  • From: Patrick W Gilmore
  • Date: Wed Aug 18 19:01:36 2004 
On Aug 18, 2004, at 6:46 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:


On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 06:12:38PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:

Anyone that isn't working on this (even slowly) is helping
contribute to part of the problem/mess of rfc1918 sourced packets leaking
to the internet.
Tell it to the unfortunate number of people manufacturing customer edge
aggregation boxes which still don't support uRPF. :)
I think he just did.

And, perhaps more importantly, he is telling the people who are considering buying such hardware.

And, perhaps most importantly, people should tell transit providers they are considering purchasing transit from that this is unacceptable. (You can consider this my personal notice to all transit providers.)

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TTFN,
patrick