Bogon filtering (don't ban me)

Fri Dec 3 15:54:40 UTC 2004

Then you could also just get a connection to team cymru's bogon servers.
Works Perfectly for us.  I have been peering with them from our sink
hole/black hole trigger router, for a while now, and I no longer need to
manually update the files.

More info here.
http://www.cymru.com/BGP/bogon-rs.html

Regards,
Mark

--
Mark Segal 
Director, Network Planning
FCI Broadband 
Tel: 905-284-4070 
Fax: 416-987-4701 
http://www.fcibroadband.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On 
> Behalf Of David Barak
> Sent: December 3, 2004 10:08 AM
> To: J. Oquendo; nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Bogon filtering (don't ban me)
> 
> 
> 
> --- "J. Oquendo" <sil at politrix.org> wrote:
> 
> > I thought about it over and over, and wonder why this hasn't been 
> > done.
> > Any care to beat me with a clue stick or two. I can understand the 
> > arguments of not wanting a vendor to have control of some 
> aspect of my 
> > business, or control over my network, but correct me if I am wrong, 
> > wouldn't this solve a heck of a lot of issues concerning 
> network based 
> > attacks, spam, scumware/spyware/fooware/$*something?
> 
> Vendor C has something similar, in their "autosecure"
> feature.  However, the trouble is that the list of bogon 
> networks is static, and in fact includes 70/8 among many 
> others.  This is (I'm certain) contributing to the 
> reachability issues that those folks with new netblocks experience.
> 
> A better implementation would be for vendors to include a 
> "bogon-subscribe server x.x.x.x" feature, which would simply 
> allow a router to talk to a centralized bogon server.  
> 
> However, the complexity of setting up the real-time BGP bogon 
> feeds is not that hard - anyone who would use the above 
> command could do it - so I'm not sure that this requires any 
> new tools.
> 
> =====
> David Barak
> -fully RFC 1925 compliant-
> 
> 
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