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Not announcing (to the greater internet) loopbacks/PTP/infra - how ?

Subject: Not announcing (to the greater internet) loopbacks/PTP/infra - how ?
From: nick at foobar.org (Nick Hilliard)
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 21:08:11 +0100
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William Herrin wrote on 04/10/2018 20:53:
> I wonder if it would be useful to ask the IETF to assign a block of
> "origination-only" IP addresses... IP addresses which by standard are
> permitted to be the source of ICMP packets but which should be
> unreachable by forward routing.

no - this would be abused for ddos.

Nick

References:
- Not announcing (to the greater internet) loopbacks/PTP/infra - how ?
  - From: brandon at burn.net (Brandon Applegate)
- Not announcing (to the greater internet) loopbacks/PTP/infra - how ?
  - From: bill at herrin.us (William Herrin)

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