Talk:Bogon filtering

"citation needed"
Why is a "citation needed" for the statement that the unallocated space is going to expand drastically with v6? Do we also need citations for the statement that 20-digit numbers are larger than 10-digit numbers? This strikes me as going kinda overboard... Iron Condor 00:23, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I've never added a link that I'm connected with before, but the "Bogons ate my website" article has been reprinted and published enough times that I felt it was appropriate. If it isn't, let me know.

dead link in page?
Why bogon filtering using BGP is useless This link seems to be to a missing article. I have not tried contacting the author of the site yet; but I think the article no longer exists.

Jengert (talk) 17:05, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I've removed the dead link; feel free to re-add if you find a working version of it and it seems appropriate per WP:EL. —Krellis (Talk) 18:38, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Bogon filtering or Bogon?
There is at least as much discussion of the word "bogon" in this article as there is of filtering same.

Either the title should be changed or a redirect from "bogon" should be added.

MikeSy (talk) 11:48, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

IPv4 exhaustion
IMHO this article could do with updating to reflect that IPv4 is now exhausted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.105.212.184 (talk) 14:21, 18 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Actually, it is confusing at the moment since it sounds like "IPv4 may be exhausted soon" and later it clearly says "Oh by the way, it is exhausted." I concur that the article could use some help in that sense. Also, are bogons limited to IPv4? Because it doesn't mention IPv6 and I'm sure there are still tons of bogons in IPv6. Alexis Wilke (talk) 18:52, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Is there any Bogon address space now that IPv4 exhaustion has been declared? Burt Harris 01:08, 29 September 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Burt Harris (talk • contribs)
 * 240.0.0.0/4 (Class E). I believe the reason it was never considered for unicast was widespread hard coded filtering. --Cybjit (talk) 21:30, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Expert needed
Looks like whomever wrote this article doesn't know CIDR notation and otherwise doesn't know what he/she is talking about.Jasper Deng (talk) 17:38, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

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Remove Unreferenced section from Etymology
In my opinion, the term 'bogon' is adequately explained in the Etymology section, with two references, so stating that references are absent is incorrect. Adding more seems overkill to me, so I propose to get rid of the Unreferenced section tag. — Da n do r iD (talk) 20:13, 19 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Removed. There are 2 refs and a cn inline so this tag was either uneeded or redundant. ~Kvng (talk) 15:01, 22 February 2022 (UTC)