SMURF amplifier block list

Mon Apr 13 01:11:14 UTC 1998

I just came to realize that there is one big problem with using BGP to
blackhole these SMURF-amplifier sites.

Put really simply, if you create a BGP blackhole all you do is prevent
your packets from getting to their network - not the converse.

While being listed on a blackhole list which affects connectivity might be
enough to encourage people to set no ip directed-broadcast or equivalent
on appropriate interfaces, I'd rather see a real filter set which I can
drop the packets at my internet-facing edges.  How to update the filter
set dynamically is another issue that I'd like to hear about.

Am I thinking correctly here or am I missing some convoluted BGP
configuration?

- Forrest W. Christian (forrestc at imach.com) 
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