[113881] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 Anycast?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Wed Apr 22 17:36:56 2009
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:36:25 -0400
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <49EF8882.6080402@brightok.net>
Reply-To: nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:13:38PM -0500, Jack Bates wrote:
[snip]
> The original question provides a good statistic, I think. Only 8
> prefixes that were announced by more than 3 origin AS.
And the overall message is that only the (prefix holder|originating
ASn[s]) can tell you if it is intended or not. Sadly, this is not a
useful metric for a third-party to use to determine prefix annoucnement
legitimacy. Perhaps an update to RPSL to allow for intentional multiple
origins is overdue?
[insert thread about folks who do/don't use tools regardless of
appropriateness]
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