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Re: Unwanted Traffic Removal Service (UTRS)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Wed Oct 8 11:23:48 2014

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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 11:19:54 -0400
To: Job Snijders <job@instituut.net>
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Job Snijders <job@instituut.net> wrote:
> Just like chicory, personally I don't like it. Yes, Cymru has build a
> reputation as clearing house for redistribution of security related
> information. But... (aside from any local safety net filter), it's quite
> a leap to allow a single entity to inject blackholes for any prefix.

Hi Job,

We already do that on the /24 level... it's called "BGP" and we all
have fun when a service provider in one of the 'Stans injects a route
overriding Youtube.

How could John's system do worse?

Regards,
Bill Herrin




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