[geeks] Fwd: [Incident 020324-000029] unroutable traffic bein g passed to my nameserver

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

Uh... OK.

Is this what is happening? If so, sum-ting-wong. You shouldn't see much of
any unsolicited traffic unless you were being vigorously hacked/DOSed. When
a provider allows rfc1918 addresses on a backbone its mostly nothing more
than a mild irritation and a security risk.

The provider isn't running a *bridged* network are they (a docsis cable
system is, for example, bridged).

James Fogg, Network Engineer
Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
(603) 442-1751

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: alex j avriette [mailto:avriettea at speakeasy.net]
~ Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 1:12 PM
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: Re: [geeks] Fwd: [Incident 020324-000029] unroutable traffic
~ bein g passed to my nameserver
~ 
~ 
~ > Its a very simple deal to acl private ip space in your 
~ router and that
~ > solves the problem.
~ > James Fogg, Network Engineer
~ 
~ it solves the problem provided the bandwidth total of the 
~ packets coming 
~ down the pipe do not equal or exceed the size of the pipe.
~ 
~ alex
~ 
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