BOGONs should be updated every now and then ...

Thursday, July 10. 2008

BOGONs should be updated every now and then ...

by Fredy Künzler

We recently received an email saying

Please remove 174.0.0.0/8 from your bogon filter...

and indeed, as time flies by, we had an outdated BOGON filter list implemented. IANA keeps allocating /8 to RIRs and if network administrators don't pay attention, parts of the internet could silently become unreachable.

In the past few month these blocks should have become routable:

112.0.0.0/8
113.0.0.0/8
114.0.0.0/8
115.0.0.0/8
173.0.0.0/8
174.0.0.0/8
186.0.0.0/8
187.0.0.0/8

Therefore it's probably wise to check if you see any more specifics of these prefixes (on Cisco / Foundry / Quagga type "sh ip bgp 113.0.0.0/8 longer").

I know that BOGON filtering could be automated, but we never found the time to get it done properly, and, as the available IPv4 space is running out, the Bogon Route Server Project will become obsolete anytime soon.

Posted by Fredy Künzler in Networks at 21:57 | Comments (0) | Trackback (1)

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