[22011] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: identify hostname
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Wed Dec 2 00:04:29 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 23:32:36 -0500
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19981201213244.00ad5f9c@odie.av8.com>; from Dean Anderson on Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 09:32:45PM -0500
On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 09:32:45PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
> Sure there are some cases that are hard or impossible to account for, but
> it would be helpful for ISP's to take a stance that "here's your address
> space. Unless you tell us otherwise, we assume its not subnetted, and we
> will block your broadcast addresse. If you subnet or otherwise change your
> broadcast address, you will need to notify us"
I think this might be a workable solution. But I work for an ISP that has a
bunch of statically routed customers, where the only BGP announcements are
traded with our two upstreams, and I don't have experience at a provider who
has tons of BGP-enabled clients who might have to deal with this on a large
scale. So I might be missing something.
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