On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Indeed. The bogons filtering is now disabled by default and for this
> reason I decided to leave it that way.
Seems an idea, unless you know it will be updated.
I'd actually go with updating from the Team Cymru bogon list, but
anyway.
> Out of curiosity, is there much documented benefit to blocking
> bogons? Surely replies wouldn't get routed back to the attacker?
Depends. Unassigned prefixes are favourite prefixes to hijack[1].
> Gavin
1. NB: To do this requires (in simple condensed terms) that you have
a cooperative ISP or that you are an ISP.
regards,
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