8 Oct
2002
8 Oct
'02
11 a.m.
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Joe Abley wrote:
What is difficult about dropping packets sourced from RFC1918 addresses before they leave your network?
But what's the point?
Politeness, I guess. Seems rude to send traffic to peers when you absolutely know that the source address is inaccurate.
Politeness is good, truthfulness is usually better. If a peer isn't properly filtering, I'd rather find out sooner (some RFC 1918 packets) than later (DoS attack).
That's like complaining that the door isn't locked while the house has no walls.
Right. The no walls problem is far more usefully tackled by filtering inbound at the edge, not outbound.
No complaints from me if that is what people do.