[14773] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Being blackhole by some one.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Fri Jan 23 16:47:17 1998
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@xcom.net>
To: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 16:28:46 -0500 (EST)
Cc: tonyh@[202.158.2.130], nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0xvnx3-0007zWC@rip.psg.com> from "Randy Bush" at Jan 23, 98 10:35:00 am
>
> > We just being blackhole by some ISP during their provisioning,
> > a few hours ago. I thought that bogus route should be filtered by
> > the NAP. Is there a way to prevent from somebody blackholing you ?
> > It takes a lot of affort to solve this problem, especially those
> > who need to update their router through rrdb automatically. Which
> > suppose to solve blackhole problem accidentally.
>
> Could you please explain the issue more specifically. "Blackhole" could
> have many meanings.
>
> randy
Blackhole to me means you've been added to a certain someones
SPAM blackhole feed.
I suspect the interpretation here is accidental announcement.
Regards,
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