[Outages-discussion] DHCP being dropped by Lumen?

[Grant Taylor]

On 6/8/22 9:30 AM, Simon Lockhart via Outages wrote:
> Centralised DHCP server in conjunction with DHCP relay at remote sites.

Thank you for clarifying local broadcast vs remote relay Simon L. (1st 
message) and Chris W. (terms).

I too had been wondering the same thing that Jay A. was asking about. 
Now I see a possible / viable reason.

However, I do wonder why such DHCP relay traffic would be in the clear 
and not inside of a VPN (encrypted or otherwise).

> If I were buying an Internet service, I wouldn't expect my service provider
> to arbitarily block some ports (unless it's to protect against an ongoing
> network attack, and it was communicated to customers).

I too expect that ISPs to be agnostic / common carrier / bit movers. 
The only thing that I'm willing to accept is filtering specific traffic 
in accordance with industry best practice in the spirit of being -- what 
I've long hear referred to as -- a Good (Inter)Net Neighbor.  E.g. 
filtering traffic that's actively abused and / or related to (D)DOS 
attacks.  I also expect that such filtering to be well documented and to 
have ways for legitimate use cases to be exempted therefrom.

P.S. I'm replying to Outages-Discussion as my comments don't directly 
contribute to Outages proper.



-- 
Grant. . . .
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