Re: OT: Arpwatch - meaning of bogon

["Jill Lundquist" <jill@chezns.org>]

>On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Kai Gallasch wrote:
>> ns1 arpwatch: bogon 123.123.123.123 0:0:c0:d5:66:f7
>
>I don't know what the word 'bogon' means either [...]

It's a very silly bit of slang, a personal favorite (my job title is
currently "Bogon Wrangler").  It means the mythical elementary
particle of bogosity, or any small bogus thing that occurs.

And "bogus" means fake or wrong or bad.  But here's the jargon
file citation:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/bogon.html


Jill Lundquist		                           jill@chezns.org
"The first butcher I saw as a child had a wooden leg, and to this
 day I have an unreasonable feeling that butchers with two genuine
 legs are impostors."            -Robertson Davies