[20221] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [YA] Fwd: Class B Purchase
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Oct 7 11:39:45 1998
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:25:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
Cc: jared@puck.nether.net, nanog@merit.edu
>> second, if they (AS5662) were connected to MCI/CW rather than
>> Sprint, they would be unreachable with this announcement, other
>> than the fact that ANS would be announcing the aggregate, and following
>> that path, rather than having the actual as-path be traversed.
> Uhm but an AS-path is a trail of bread-crumbs to prevent an announcement
> loop, not a proper predictor of the forwarding-path towards the origin.
but, as jared was talking about filtering of routes, forwarding path is
quite irrelevant.
randy
