How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site?

Fri Dec 3 13:46:27 UTC 2004

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?