[20760] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Clue's for Clue-less
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin, Christian)
Mon Oct 26 16:12:21 1998
From: "Martin, Christian" <CMartin@mercury.balink.com>
To: "'rirving@onecall.net'" <rirving@onecall.net>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'"
<nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:49:44 -0500
Richard Irving Wrote:
> To "You Know Who You Are":
>
> Since some of the filtering policies on the core *seem* to
> not benefit the Internet as a whole... (or is that Hole ? ;)
>
> May I suggest one that does:
>
> neighbor WWW.XXX.YYY.ZZZ maximum-prefix XXXXX
>
> It has a way of dropping "clue-nots"..... When
> they demonstrate said title.....
>
> Your clueful attention appreciated.
>
> Signed,
>
> One *URKED* Core Operator.
>
What if it has a way of dropping big blocks? From what I've seen n
sniffer traces, it depends on how the routes are stored in the BGP table
that determines how they are advertised. This may have the effect of
sinking large, valid netblocks. Unless you've seen otherwise...
-Chris
