Best practices inquiry: filtering 128/1

Patrick W. Gilmore patrick at ianai.net
Tue Jul 11 02:46:08 UTC 2006


On Jul 10, 2006, at 10:18 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:00:11 EDT, "Patrick W. Gilmore" said:
>>
>> On Jul 10, 2006, at 9:48 PM, WONG, Yuen-Fung wrote:
>>
>>> Sometimes earlier this year someone announced this 128/1 and caused
>>> heavy loading to our routers to rebuild the CEF.
>>> Would anyone filter out this route (and other similar routes such
>>> as 0/1, 128/1, 0/2, 64/2, .... up to /4, for example) as bogus  
>>> routes?
>>
>> Would anyone not filter those routes?  Why wouldn't you filter to /7?
>
> Every growing season, a new crop of network engineers falls fresh from
> the tree, and must be picked up, polished, and clue imparted on the
> way to market.....

Well, then don't snip the most important clue in the post:

> Actually, I take that back.  Why wouldn't you just get a feed from  
> Cymru <http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/index.html> ??

:-)

-- 
TTFN,
patrick



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