You're not crazy, and UUNet should be filtering them.
No Chris, you're not crazy...
There are good reasons to want to get those packets (traceroutes from people who have numbered their networks in rfc1918 networks,
No John, there are exactly zero reasons, good or otherwise, for allowing any traffic with RFC-1918 source addresses to traverse any part of the public Internet. Period! :-) [ On Thursday, February 22, 2001 at 13:22:27 (-0800), Eric A. Hall wrote: ]
Subject: Re: rfc 1918?
That's not a good reason. Nobody should be generating public traffic from those addresses, "making them work" is not an Internet-friendly decision.
Precisely. The sooner RFC-1918-sourced packets get filtered (i.e. the closer to source they get filtered, *and* the quicker that *EVERYONE* introduces such filters), then the sooner (i.e. the quicker) the people (and that's the politely and politically correct way of speaking of them) who think they can use private addresses in public networks will hopefully get clue-by-4'ed into changing their errant ways. Now if only I could find some magic way to let all those trigger happy people running lame IDS to complain to the true source of such packets. If the relatively few complaints I see from such people when accidental ftp or http connections are attempted to their workstations are any indication, then the mere volume of complaints alone would probably be sufficient reason for anyone to stop using RFC-1918 addressing. Too bad the Internet's not just one big large bridged Ethernet and then we could just look up the MAC address (on our border bridges, of course) of any offender and then go beat them over the head directly with the magnled packets! :-) Thankfully there are now devices that can do such filtering effectively even at very high core speeds.... Now we only have to convince the manufacturers of such devices to supply them with default configurations that do such filtering (and not to make the stupid mistake that they need to leave their factory configurations as if they will only ever live in a lab environment)! -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>