How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site?

Fri Dec 3 08:33:04 UTC 2004

Chad,

> That's why I am a very firm believer in the power of "ip route
> x.x.x.x y.y.y.y null0" command.  :)  Makes the problem go away for me
> (for the most part) and doesn't cause anyone else any pain as a
> result except my customers, who agreed to let me use that power when
> they purchased service from me.

I would rather prefer the traffic not hitting anything behind my
transit/peering machinery at all, so the "ip route" alone doesn't
make me happy, I also have to adjust ingress ACLs every once in a
while.

And while Cisco's autosecure feature looks fine in most parts (saves
a lazy overworked bum like me a lot of typing), it does not do much
good - in my opinion - when it comes to bogon filtering. I prefer
knowing what the filter looks like, and it does not seem to give me
that, nor any way of modifying the list (correct me if I'm wrong).

I like the simplicity of, e.g., the Cymru route-server project, giving
me bogon prefixes I can then blackhole, and giving me the opportunity
to filter those prefixes (and hence my filters). Unfortunately, this
only works for egress, and I still have to look after my ingress ACLs.

Oh, and of course this is only a good thing as long as the Cymru folks
can be trusted...

Cheers,
	Elmi.

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