do bogon filters still help?

Wed Jan 11 18:29:24 UTC 2006

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Edward Lewis wrote:

> No data, but I thought I should add...RFC 3330 "Special-Use IPv4 Addresses" 
> lists the "obvious stuff."  I just went through an exercise in de-bogonizing 
> and needed that reference. [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3330.txt]
>
> Be careful though. It lists 24.0.0.0/8 as "special," explaining that this 
> went to cable operators (and eventually administered via ARIN). So don't just 
> use the Summary Table in section 3 blindly.

For those doing similar exercise, you might want to look at rephrased 
version of rfc330 listed blocks:
  http://www.completewhois.com/iana-ipv4-specialuse.txt

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william at elan.net