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echo: nthelp
to: Geo
from: Mike N.
date: 2006-01-29 01:50:14
subject: Re: firewalls

From: Mike N. 

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 23:47:54 -0500, "Geo"  wrote:

>Standard setup for who, people with more router cpu than they know what to
>do with?

   Yes, those people -- remember all the arrows in the backs of the first
pioneers to receive allocations from bogon space?   (68.x.x.x)   They were
unreachable to a relatively large number of end networks.

>If you are using bogon space, then you are probably also using bgp so
>getting a reply shouldn't be much of an issue.

   Yes, but try advertising bogon space in BGP and see how far it
propagates.   Same sort of sanity checks on BGP advertisements.

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