[arin-ppml] ULA-C

[George Bonser]

Can you tell me how RFC1918 space can be routed across the global
internet?

No transit provider in the world accepts those routes and assuming that
such traffic would have to traverse at least three networks
(originating, at least one transit and the destination), having all
three misconfigured is quite unlikely.

But I have never seen a transit network that will pass RFC1918 traffic.
Who would they send it to?  There must be a few hundred networks
attempting to announce that space to them.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen at delong.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 10:18 PM
> To: joel jaeggli
> Cc: George Bonser; mcr at sandelman.ca; arin-ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] ULA-C
> 
> Well said.  Even RFC-1918 space can be routed across the global
> internet due to misconfiguration, so, I fail to see how that can
> possibly provide the protection described.
> 
> Admittedly, the number of misconfigurations increases in inverse
> proportion to topological proximity, but, nonetheless, lots of routing
> tables see RFC-1918 space on the global internet due to
> misconfiguration.
> 
> Why would ULA-C or any other "special" prefix be any different?
> 
> Owen
> 
> On Apr 11, 2010, at 7:14 PM, joel jaeggli wrote:
> 
> > Oddly, I work for mondo-megacorp and I find it interesting that
> you're speaking for all entities that fit that category collectively.
> >
> > From my vantage point ,the security posture associated with a
> particular prefix, service or network internal to our administrative
> domain is defined by requirements not by some intrinsic nature of the
> prefix.
> >
> > George Bonser <gbonser at seven.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: joel jaeggli [mailto:joelja at bogus.com]
> >>> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 6:37 PM
> >>> To: George Bonser; mcr at sandelman.ca
> >>> Cc: arin-ppml at arin.net
> >>> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] ULA-C
> >>>
> >>> Mondo-megacorp will trivially have enough gua space to address
it's
> >>> extranet and the cost of aquiring space is negible compared to
cost
> of
> >>> deploying anything inside mondo-megacorp.
> >>>
> >>> Joel
> >>>
> >>
> >> Joel, you missed the point.  The do not want their financial
backend
> systems on globally routable address space.
> >>
> >> They do not want it to even be POSSIBLE that by some kind of
> misconfiguration, their systems could be reachable from the Internet.
> So they put it in address space that is impossible to be reached
across
> the public Internet.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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