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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Danny McPherson wrote: All the interesting attacks today that employ spoofing (and the majority of the less-interesting ones that employ spoofing) are usually relying on existence of the source as part of the attack vector (e.g., DNS cache poisoning, BGP TCP RST attacks, DNS reflective amplification attacks, etc..), and as a result, loose mode gives folks a false sense of protection/action. Yep. Same thing with bogon filters. Any attacker which can source packets with bogon addresses, can by definition, source packets with any "valid" IP address too. Great as an academic exercise, but the bad guys are going to send evil packets without the evil bit nor using bogon addresses. If the bad guys are using spoofed addresses, they don't care about the reply packets to either valid or unallocated addresses. However, seeing packets with unallocated IP addresses on the Internet is evidence of a broken network. Just like when a network trips "max prefix" on a BGP session, shouldn't a broken network be shutdown until the problem is fixed. If you don't want to risk your network peers turning off the connections, make sure your network doesn't source spoofed packets.
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