[110615] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Mon Jan 12 16:14:34 2009
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:14:21 +0100
In-Reply-To: <496BB194.4070508@brightok.net> (Jack Bates's message of "Mon, 12
Jan 2009 15:09:40 -0600")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
* Jack Bates:
> Florian Weimer wrote:
>> I think this is over the line. You can't put other people's IDs into
>> routing data on production networks. (Well, technically you can,
>> obviously, but you shouldn't.)
>
> Actually, the placement of the ASN is exactly what they need to do the
> test, as it is treated as a routing loop and discarded.
Sorry, I fail to see how apparent necessity justifies anything,
especially in an academic context.
