[111283] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peer Filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Barry)
Mon Feb 2 22:26:04 2009
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:22:21 +1100
From: Martin Barry <marty@supine.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <DB9EA494D2E5614D842C2BC65C2D1722714C0C@mail-ww.vanoppen.com>
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$quoted_author = "John van Oppen" ;
>
> Here in the US we don't bother, max-prefix covers it... It seems that
> US originated prefixes are rather sporadically entered into the routing
> DBs.
...and you are not worried about someone leaking a subset of routes?
I understand that most failure cases would trigger a max-prefix but a typo
could allow just enough leakage to not hit max-prefix and yet still make
something "important" unreachable.
cheers
marty
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