Andre
I take it you mean that RFC1918 or other bogons that are not assigned by IANA to any registry are okay to filter vs assigned/allocated IP space to/from the registeries should not be filtered. Thomas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andre Oppermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:33 AM Subject: [swinog] Filtering the backbone is BAD!!! Don't do it!!! > Hello all, > > please stop any filtering in the IP backbones! It wreks havroc the > whole thing. If you do any filtering, then do it on the access network > gateways to the backbone! > > I'm getting really pissed that more and more upstreams are filtering > their entire backbones without telling anyone (not even their ISP > customers) and without updating the filters all the time!!! :-( > > Who are the bad guys? I know that Sunrise, IP-Plus and COLT are > filtering. Anyone else? > > Look at this. I wanted to access the site of an DivX alternative and > got this: > > # ping www.3ivx.com > PING 3ivx.com (207.228.238.29): 56 data bytes > 36 bytes from filter-for-online-gambling-sites-and-RFC1918-addr.zrh1.ch. > colt.net (212.23.224.56): Destination Host Unreachable > Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst > 4 5 00 5400 487b 0 0000 3e 01 adb9 212.23.244.90 207.228.238.29 > > > -- > Andre > ---------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/ ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
