Who is announcing bogons?

Tue Apr 29 01:29:16 UTC 2003

Sean,
I am not a BGP Guru by any means but as I see it:
there are more than 25 /8 that should not be routed at all...
And they are easily summarized.. some can be /6 or less...
I never tried that.. But should work....

If I go to AT&T and ask for a list of what should be routed,
That will be a huge list and not summarizeable.
Although there are routers on the market that have massive amounts of RAM
and can handle oodles of routes, and some ISP's may want to do this.
BUT the average net user can easily take a BGP Feed of say 25 /8 and
50 /16 or so and /dev null all is fine. Using my example of the blockage of
APNIC /8s.. SPAM SPAM GONE Away..... So can many other problems...
(I ACL'd 4 /8 from APNIC on a Mail server and lost 60-70 % of the inbound SPAM... 
Nice test, Syslog didn't like it none.....)

To me Rob provides a great service, which I am ashamed to say, I am falling 
down to implement... If I could /dev null some of the ole task list 
I would do it now....

Anyway, JMHO....

Jim

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean at donelan.com]
>Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 9:16 PM
>To: nanog at merit.edu
>Subject: Who is announcing bogons?
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>On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Rob Thomas wrote:
>> ] Rob, on the other hand, has gained a lot of trust in maintaining
>> ] a highly accurate list.
>> Thanks very much.  :)  I can't accept all the credit though. 
> My thanks
>> go out to all the members of Team Cymru.
>
>Unfortunately, no good deed goes unpunished.  Jon Postel did a great
>job maintaining the list of IP addresses.  Paul Vixie did a great job
>with the first Real-Time Blackhole List.  But people move on, 
>and things
>change.
>
>But my real question is why are negative bogon lists necessary?  If you
>ask providers, they all say they implement positive prefix list filters
>on all their customers.  So who is injecting the bogons?  And 
>why do they
>still have a network connection?
>
>Should we be spending time teaching people how to do positive prefix
>filters, or trying to explain to them why the negative prefix filter
>the last network administrator installed 2 years ago is out of date.
>
>What is the cross-over point?  When does the number of lines in a bogon
>list become larger than the positive prefix filter?  If you 
>are going to
>list every sub-allocation which isn't routed, why not just list the
>allocations which should be routed?
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