[16015] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: oh, for goodness' sake.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin W. Newton)
Wed Apr 8 00:50:42 1998
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 19:59:19 -0700
To: danny@genuity.net, jzeeff@verio.net
From: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@gid.net>
Cc: andrewc@nildram.net (Andrew Crawford), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199804080037.AAA01815@ice.genuity.net>
At 05:36 PM 4/7/98 -0700, Danny McPherson wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps the policy should be
>>
>> No whois.ripe.net = no rebuild of BGP filters
>
>Yeah, I suppose writing code that relies on DNS (rather than an IP
address) to
>ensure routing works correctly is a good idea *8^/
>
>-danny
Until the IP address changes. One would think that people would learn not
to make routing policy changes off of things automatically without having
some sort of sanity checks in place after past network outages caused by
exactly this problem.
Oh well, live and learn.
Justin W. Newton
