Etymology
The term bogon stems from hacker jargon, where it is defined as the quantum of bogosity, or the property of being bogus. A bogon packet is frequently bogus both in the conventional sense of being forged for illegitimate purposes, and in the hackish sense of being incorrect, absurd, and useless: see "Quantum bogodynamics".
The term bogon in the US is pronounced about the same way as bogan is in Australia. The Australian term is often used to describe people of lower socioeconomic status, similar to the term redneck that is used in the US. The University of Melbourne was one of the first locations to start filtering the unallocated IP addresses because of their high costs of international traffic and it appears that bogon may have derived from conversations between network administrators on different sides of the TransPacific Internet link.
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