On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:38:23AM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
As such, is a BGP feed a panacea? No. Is it a step in the right direction? Yes. Will it solve the problem by itself? No. Will it improve the
So, someone feel free to smack me if I'm mentioning something which has been discussed already (there isn't enough masochism in the world to make me read this entire thread), buttttt... How exactly is a BGP feed of bogons useful in any way shape form of fashion? It doesn't prevent people from announcing more specifics, it doesn't do anything about source address bogons, it can't be used to packet filter... How exactly would it do anything other than simply not having the route at all? If and when some vendor adds support for taking the routes from a bgp feed and using them in a packet filter, sign me up. Until then, I must be missing something. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)