[26052] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danny McPherson)
Thu Dec 2 21:20:23 1999
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To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Danny McPherson <danny@qwest.net>
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 19:19:53 -0700
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> > > There are ways to get around this (as-path filtering, maximum-paths, etc)
> > > that aren't as nazi as one would hope, but will prevent stupidity and
> > > provide sanity checking.
> >
> > Maximum paths deals primarily with ibgp
>
> Well, thats patently wrong. I don't know how else to respond to this.
It's actually "maximum-prefix" in Cisco parlance, perhaps this introduced the confusion.
As for Verio's policy of filtering based on registry allocations, I know of several other providers that implement it as well, and have for quite a while.
-danny
