Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

Mon Aug 25 13:38:00 UTC 2008

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:21:23 PDT, "Tomas L. Byrnes" said:
>> You're missing one of the basic issues with bogon sources: they are
>> often advertised bogons, IE the bad guy DOES care about getting the
>> packets back, and has, in fact, created a way to do so.
> 
> But if you've seen a BGP announcement with a prefix that covers the source,
> is it really a bogon anymore?
> 

IIRC "bogon" is specific to unallocated space. Whether it be advertised 
or not should not matter.

Regards,

	Chris