[124299] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jens Link)
Tue Mar 30 05:59:09 2010
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jens Link <lists@quux.de>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:58:16 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20100330045956.EB00B1CC31@ptavv.es.net> (Kevin Oberman's message
of "Mon\, 29 Mar 2010 21\:59\:56 -0700")
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes:
> He said that if the protocols would not handle blocked 53/tcp, the
> protocols would have to be changed. Opening the port was simply not
> open to discussion.
Let me guess: They also completely blocked ICMP. I always tell these
customers to switch to IPv6 real fast and to turn of ICMPv6 to make
their networks really secure. ;-)
> I will say that these were at federal government facilities. I hope the
> commercial world is a bit more in touch with reality.
You can find clueless people everywhere.
Jens
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