[mattybrennan]

I'm no fan of spam, but this seems to tie in to net neutrality. I'm not sure I want verizon deciding who is good or bad on the internet.

[profmonocle]

It's not a net neutrality issue, these are bogons. A bogon is a block of IP addresses being announced by a network that shouldn't be announcing them. For instance, if you own the IP block 192.0.2.0/24, and then I announce a route to 192.0.2.0/24 from my network, my announcement is a bogon.

Bogons are unacceptable regardless of what they're being used for, because the announcer is essentially hijacking those IP addresses. In this case the addresses being hijacked aren't being used, but they still don't belong to the group using them.

Any ISP that propagates BGP announcements from their customers should have filters in place to prevent this from happening. Verizon isn't doing their due diligence.

[stryk]

I thought a bogon was an Australian hillbilly? Hrmphf...

[imron]

That's a bogan.

[dantiberian]

This has nothing to do with net neutrality.

[packetized]

I wasn't aware that the article was written by Verizon.

In all seriousness, it's not V who decides who is good or bad on the Internet - it's a shared consensus that things like this are Bad(tm).

[Buge]

If people forge documents, those people should be banned.

Verizon shouldn't be helping people steal IP addresses from other organizations.