Hi Randy, .-- My secret spy satellite informs me that at Thu, 07 Aug 2008, Randy Bush wrote:
> serious curiosity: > > what is the proportion of bad stuff coming from unallocated space vs > allocated space? real measurements, please. and are there longitudinal > data on this? > > are the uw folk, gatech, vern, ... measuring? I did some measurements in The Netherlands (SURFnet) using netflow around 1,5 years ago. During this project around 86 million 'Bogon flows' were analyzed. This was not more then 0.1% (probably even lower) of all flows during that 1 week period. The majority of these flows were actually from/to RFC1918 address space. One of the things (amongst others) we looked at was SMTP traffic from / to bogons, to verify the theory that spammers announce a bogon prefix to sent spam. From the 86 million bogon flows analyzed, 12 SMTP flows were found, very minimal. Other things we looked at, were type of traffic (applications) & protocols and the sources of those flows. We saw some strange (interesting) things, but that was really just a few flows in many many many milions of flows. Anyways, if you're interested the research report can be found here: http://www.toonk.nl/bogon-traffic-analysis.pdf There's also a presentation http://www.toonk.nl/presentations.php Cheers, Andree -- Andree Toonk http://www.toonk.ca/blog/