Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

Wed Aug 6 15:46:35 UTC 2008

Leo Bicknell wrote:

> Have bogon filters outlived their use?  Is it time to recommend people
> go to a simpler bogon filter (e.g. no 1918, Class D, Class E) that
> doesn't need to be updated as frequently?

Seems like filtering against those could be done on the backplane, so to 
speak.

One of the things that has always puzzled me is this:

In the default-free zone, why is necessary to filter _against_ anybody? 
  Seems like traffic for which there is no route would at most be dumped 
to an error-log someplace.

For folks with a default route, I have long advocated (with no success 
what ever) filtering against stuff like the above, your own networks as 
sourced somewhere else, such.

I also think a central blacklist a la spamhaus for networks makes sense.
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