[CDBUG-talk] blackhole time-warner

Dave Del Debbio ddeldebb at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 22:38:12 EDT 2008


Dave Del Debbio wrote:
> Does else want to do this?  Time Warner has a dhcp server at
> 10.116.176.1 serving my dynamic ip connection.  I don't have a route to
> 10/8 in the routing table, yet I keep getting icmp echo requests
> from the dhcp server and one other machine on the 10/8 subnet on my
> gateway.
> 
> To prevent direct queries, reverse queries, and kill syslog "no route to
> host" messages I did the following:
> 
> route -q add -inet 10.0.0.0/8 localhost -blackhole to /etc/rc
> 
> edited named.conf and added following:
> 
> acl rr { 10.0.0.0/8; };
> 
> options {
>       <snip>
>           blackhole { rr; };
>          <snip>
> }
> 
> and have a (advice from ISC website)
> 
> zone "10.in-addr.arpa"{
>     type master;
>     file "master/empty";
> };
> 
> which has:
>  ; $OpenBSD: empty,v 0.1 2008/07/21 21:20:25 ddeldebb Exp $
> 
>  $ORIGIN 10.in-addr.arpa.
>  $TTL 6h
> 
>  @    IN    SOA    fw.home.deldebbio.org. root.home.deldebbio.org. (
>              1    ; serial
>              1h    ; refresh
>              30m    ; retry
>              7d    ; expiration
>              1h )    ; minimum
> 
>          NS    blackhole-1.iana.org.
>                 NS      blackhole-2.iana.org.
> 
> 
> Is this overkill?  Is there a better way to handle RFC 1918 packets from 
> Time Warner?
> 
> Dave.
Nevermind.  I found how I wanted the empty zone from emj.se; I also 
moved the added route to rc.local.

I'm good to go...



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