[100733] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS 7018 BGP blackhole / AT&T contact sought
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald Stahl)
Tue Nov 6 18:55:24 2007
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:54:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Donald Stahl <don@calis.blacksun.org>
To: Nathan Anderson/FSR <nathana@fsr.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4730EDE8.8010809@fsr.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> ...but without a (public) reply. It has been suggested (both in the
> follow-ups to the above and elsewhere) that there are people involved with
> 7018 that are frequent readers here; I'm really hoping one of them will take
> pity on us and either reply here or communicate with me off-list.
>
> We are in need of an RFC3882-esque method of null-routing /32s on-demand on
> our provider's network before they are sent to us. I can provide details of
> our circumstances if requested. I have been trying to get the answer to this
> question from AT&T MIS support for days now, but have gotten nowhere. The
> telephone support guys won't talk to me about this and tell me to use "Life
> Cycle" / e-mail for this issue. E-mail replies from AWMIS are days in coming
> and not helpful (typically just providing me with more hoops that they want
> to make me jump through), and I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with the
> level of "support" being given. All I need is a "yes" or "no" response and,
> if "yes" is the answer, the proper community to use.
They don't support it. Other communities yes. Blackhole no. At least
that's what's I've always been told by them.
-Don
