On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> It seems that at some stage shorewall introduced banning of bogons,
> that is ip ranges which have not been assigned and as such nobody
> should be getting requests from.
Presumably shorewall has a way to automatically update this list?
Otherwise that is a terrifically dumb idea, as you noted further in
your mail, unassigned prefixes will eventually be assigned. See:
http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/
For a maintained list.
regards,
--
Paul Jakma paul at clubi.iepaul at jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A
Fortune:
Your object is to save the world, while still leading a pleasant life.
Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to
support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can
display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend
information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by
Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds,
used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance
of this highly praised website. Looking for the
Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
