[12797] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNet Routing SNAFU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Wed Oct 8 14:18:59 1997
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:05:05 -0400
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@priori.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <v03110710b06160330f78@[209.104.193.33]>; from Michael Dillon on Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 09:11:27AM -0700
On Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 09:11:27AM -0700, Michael Dillon wrote:
>
> Isn't this the kind of problems that the Doran filters are supposed
> to prevent?
Yes.
>
> I understand that it is not to everyone's benefit to filter on the
> /19 boundary like Sprint does but it seems to be prudent to adopt a
> /8 filter on most of the old class A space and a /16 filter on the
> old class B space. Other than the need to update these filters as
> the former class A space is subdivided I can see no major downside.
I for one am going to implement such filters ASAP, and I hope others
will do the same...
It might be a good idea for providers to put up web pages on their
policy for accepting external announcements, for reference purposes.
Alec
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