[28873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP filtering of supernets out of classful space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri May 19 23:49:24 2000
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Jeff Haas <jeffhaas@merit.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 16:20:29 -0700
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> A provider in China has been assigned addresses in the
> traditional class C space. APNIC's assignment is a /16 for this allocation.
> Said provider, trying to be good Internet citizens are announcing
> only aggregates of /16.
>
> However, they're running into several providers that are filtering
> the announcements because they aren't /24.
i can only imagine that these providers are confused by one vendor's
(recently fixed) rather baroque filter rule syntax.
randy
