Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

[Joe Malcolm <jmalcolm () uraeus com>]

Robert E. Seastrom writes:
> 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.  As smb so eloquently just asserted, "availability is a
> security issue too".

This is particularly but not exclusively true if they are implementing
an "overhead" function - i.e., if they are not directly in the
money-generating path. If they are, they at least have some chance at
getting some attention when not on fire. Otherwise, they will likely
be ignored until failure.

Joe