From: Iljitsch van Beijnum (no email)
Date: Fri Dec 03 2004 - 08:46:27 EST
On 3-dec-04, at 10:57, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Routers would ship with the iana_reserved_block list of when they were
> manufactured. If the user is stoopid enough not to be able to get his
> filters from Cymru directly then he should not have any filtering at
> all
> because he is never going to update it anyway in the future. Ergo lots
> of black holes for newly allocated address spaces to the RIR's.
Exactly. (Unless "IANA reserved" != "unallocated" but IANA does call
unallocated space "reserved".)
> The cure will be far worse than the disease if routers would come with
> pre-configured bogon lists.
Indeed. In fact, the whole bogon filtering thing is more harmful than
useful.
> If you do any bogon filtering at all then do it with some automatically
> updating system like an BGP bogon feed from Cymru.
What exactly does this feed do for me? Wouldn't bogons be everything
that isn't in the global routing table?
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