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Re: What were we saying about edge filtering?
From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck Nether net>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 03:25:28 -0400
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 06:37:57AM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Matthew Sullivan wrote:More whining and bitching from me ... sorry... So who thinks allowing anyone to route to or from IANA Reserved blocks (Bogons) is acceptable?Technically these packets are 'routed' correctly, they are perhaps not filtered, but thats another story entirely.A few captured packets.... 15:42:41.434384 1.6.145.24.1116 > 203.101.254.254.53: S-- snip --Is there any need to route bogons? Is there any reason why it cannot be filtered (I appreciate 224-239 is a different story)....?At the edge, very near the originating host there is no reason not to filter these, if you find the sources you might consider asking them why they didn't filter these for you...
I would ask your upstreams to filter out such "worthless" traffic. My opinion is fairly clear on this topic. If I can't return it, I'm not going to accept it. Fairly simple policy. - jared
These packets were all originated on the other side of the Pacific to Telecom NZ.and they travelled well apparently.
-- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared () puck nether net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
Current thread:
- What were we saying about edge filtering? Matthew Sullivan (Sep 03)
- Re: What were we saying about edge filtering? Rob Thomas (Sep 03)
- Re: What were we saying about edge filtering? Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 03)
- Re: What were we saying about edge filtering? Jared Mauch (Sep 04)
- Re: What were we saying about edge filtering? Gerardo Gregory (Sep 04)
- Re: What were we saying about edge filtering? Jack Bates (Sep 04)
- Re: What were we saying about edge filtering? Paul Vixie (Sep 04)
- Re: What were we saying about edge filtering? Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 04)
- Re: What were we saying about edge filtering? Rob Thomas (Sep 04)
- Re: What were we saying about edge filtering? Sean Donelan (Sep 04)
- Re: What were we saying about edge filtering? Adam Debus (Sep 04)
- RE: What were we saying about edge filtering? Terry Baranski (Sep 06)
- Re: What were we saying about edge filtering? Petri Helenius (Sep 07)
- Re: What were we saying about edge filtering? Jared Mauch (Sep 04)
- Re: What were we saying about edge filtering? Petri Helenius (Sep 04)