Re: Where are static bogon filters appropriate? was: 96.2.0.0/16 Bogons

From: Gregory Edigarov (no email)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 09:50:14 EST

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    Jon Lewis wrote:
    >
    > On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
    >
    >> So, where are static bogon filters appropriate? (loaded question
    >> perhaps)
    >> I ask because just about every 'security expert' and 'security
    >> whitepaper'
    >> or 'security suggestions' has some portion that speaks to "why it's a
    >> grand idea to have acl-lines/firewall-policy tp block 'bogon' ip space"
    >> (for some definition of 'bogon' of course).
    >
    > I suppose they're appropriate when done by network security
    > consultants, as it guarantees future / repeat business. :)
    >
    I'll second this opinion, As most of DDoS attacks are from zombies,
    which are in registered networks.
    Especially I did never see any traffic from so called bogons. Perhaps,
    bogon acls are helpful when they are configured on backbone, but not
    everywhere.

    just my 1E-10 cents :-)

    --
    With best regards,
        Gregory Edigarov
    

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