69/8...this sucks

Tue Mar 11 21:07:32 UTC 2003

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:38:23AM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
> 
> As such, is a BGP feed a panacea?  No.  Is it a step in the right direction?
> Yes.  Will it solve the problem by itself?  No.  Will it improve the 

So, someone feel free to smack me if I'm mentioning something which has 
been discussed already (there isn't enough masochism in the world to make 
me read this entire thread), buttttt...

How exactly is a BGP feed of bogons useful in any way shape form of
fashion? It doesn't prevent people from announcing more specifics, it
doesn't do anything about source address bogons, it can't be used to
packet filter... How exactly would it do anything other than simply not 
having the route at all?

If and when some vendor adds support for taking the routes from a bgp feed
and using them in a packet filter, sign me up. Until then, I must be
missing something.

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