69.0.0.0/8 - Please update your filters

Sameer R. Manek manek at ecst.csuchico.edu
Wed Feb 26 15:58:16 UTC 2003


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Todd A. Blank
>
> We were an early user of the 69/8 address space.  I started the original
> thread on this subject back in Sept/Oct 2002.  While I am very disturbed
> (but not surprised) to find out that there are still serious issues with
> networks acknowledging this allocation, this is one of the best
> suggestions I have seen for doing something to force the issue.
>

Filters once in place are rarely removed, unless the maintainers of the
filters are notified about a specific problem. Even then the filters never
completely go away. There is always a device or two in everyone's network
that have been forgotten about, with outdated filters.

Sameer




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