[107307] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Fri Aug 29 22:26:00 2008
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:25:49 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: jim deleskie <deleskie@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ffcec29f0808291747w149aebcbi3fa586d066b2a1e0@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008, jim deleskie wrote:
> Announcing a smaller bit of one of you block is fine, more then that
> most everyone I know does it or has done and is commonly accepted.
> Breaking up someone else' s block and making that announcement even if
> its to modify traffic between 2 peered networks is typically not
> looked as proper. Modify your taffic good. Do it to anyone other
> traffic = bad.
The question shouldn't really be "would people do this to others' traffic";
the question should be "has it already happened and noone noticed."
Adrian
