[21171] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ARIN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Thu Nov 5 20:49:23 1998
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:38:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@mindspring.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9811051651440.13691-100000@hunter.softaware.com>
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Jason Weisberger wrote:
> > This method, of course, is a bit unfriendly since you're making more
> > announcements than you would be otherwise.
>
> And if you are using 2 different providers for 2 POPs where the
> announcement is split, one POP is hosed.
Actually, if you mean you lost internal connectivity, each pop would be
half hosed as long as you're announcing the /19 in both. In that case it
might be best to just announce the specifics and let the traffic from the
providers that do filter on masks longer than /19 be sub-optimal.
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