[193940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: google ipv6 routes via cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Fri Mar 3 06:56:06 2017
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 12:56:01 +0100
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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* howard@leadmon.net (Howard Leadmon) [Fri 03 Mar 2017, 01:06 CET]:
>On 3/2/2017 2:57 PM, Niels Bakker wrote:
>>You should ask for full routes from all your providers + a default.
>
> If you taking full routes from everyone, why would you need a
>default? If they don't show a route for it, they probably can't reach
>it. I don't think I have run with a default route external for many
>years, and so far it hasn't bit me yet..
As I explained in the rest of my email that you conveniently didn't
quote, it's so that you can selectively import routes from all your
providers in situations where your router cannot handle a full table.
-- Niels.