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Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:17:36 -0400
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:56:27 -0700 Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:
Not sure what you mean by this, but the painful reality is that most stuff, once deployed, gets promptly forgotten about, much the same as you might ignore a wall wart power supply under your desk until it started smelling funny or stopped delivering electricity. Thus, I contend that one's routers should be configured to avoid ticking time bombs.and i am saying that you should use a router configuration *system* that avoids ticking time bombs. no router should be neglected and unloved.
That, I think, is why he distinguished between routers run by "highly clueful people" and routers run by others. I think we all agree on your basic point; it's just that too many people aren't clueful enough to realize that they even have a problem, let alone know how to solve it. (Of course, you and I both have a background in programming languages and compilers, which is why we naturally think of router configurations as a form of assembler language that only a compiler should every emit.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
Current thread:
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?, (continued)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Marshall Eubanks (Aug 15)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Robert E. Seastrom (Aug 15)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Randy Bush (Aug 15)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Sean Donelan (Aug 15)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Robert E. Seastrom (Aug 15)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Randy Bush (Aug 15)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Aug 15)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Robert E. Seastrom (Aug 15)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Randy Bush (Aug 15)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Robert E. Seastrom (Aug 15)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Steven M. Bellovin (Aug 15)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Sean Donelan (Aug 15)
- RE: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Tomas L. Byrnes (Aug 16)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Joe Malcolm (Aug 15)
- RE: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Ray Burkholder (Aug 15)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Randy Bush (Aug 16)
- RE: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? michael.dillon (Aug 18)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Jeff Aitken (Aug 18)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Sean Donelan (Aug 15)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Steven M. Bellovin (Aug 15)
- Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters? Sean Donelan (Aug 15)