[132022] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS path question.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Thu Nov 11 08:54:07 2010
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:53:04 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1011110725550.5148@soloth.lewis.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/11/2010 6:31 AM, Jon Lewis wrote:
>
> Speaking of prepends, what's the community opinion on prepending someone
> else's ASN on your routes for TE purposes if you're announcing routes
> you don't want certain AS's to see, but don't have a communities knob
> that works for those networks? I was pretty negative on the idea until I
> was in the situation of having a working knob taken away. Nobody's
> complaining about it...probably not even noticing it.
>
Per usual, I'm some people look on it with distaste, though I feel that
is an emotional response and not a technical viewpoint, as it is a
perfect way of handling hinge case workarounds that are usually
temporary in nature.
Jack
