[Outages-discussion] DHCP being dropped by Lumen?

[Jay Ashworth]

Grant is saying most of the stuff that was going through my head, here, I was just busy eating lunch at the time so I did not show my work.  ;-)

On June 8, 2022 11:49:43 AM EDT, Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
>On 6/8/22 9:30 AM, Simon Lockhart via Outages wrote:
>> Centralised DHCP server in conjunction with DHCP relay at remote sites.
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>Thank you for clarifying local broadcast vs remote relay Simon L. (1st message) and Chris W. (terms).
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>I too had been wondering the same thing that Jay A. was asking about. Now I see a possible / viable reason.
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>However, I do wonder why such DHCP relay traffic would be in the clear and not inside of a VPN (encrypted or otherwise).
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>> 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).
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>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.
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>P.S. I'm replying to Outages-Discussion as my comments don't directly contribute to Outages proper.
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>-- 
>Grant. . . .
>unix || die
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