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Re: Best way to get of Bogon list?

  • From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
  • Date: Fri Nov 26 00:19:30 2004

[email protected] wrote:
Can someone identify the *benefits* of using bogon lists for
unallocated space? It appears that it only hurts connectivity, but
does not help in any significant way to enhance security.

Possibly, whoever are the vendors of software that recommends this
practice (and authors of security handbooks) should be show the error
of their ways?
Is this where we restart the BCP38 thread and then argue that if everybody implemented BCP38, people wouldn't need to use this?

srs