[33376] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: net.terrorism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Evans)
Tue Jan 9 14:15:19 2001
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:41:31 +0000 (GMT)
From: Patrick Evans <pre@pre.org>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
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On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Jared Mauch wrote:
>
> Filter out any /24 - /32 announcement you hear from above.net.
>
> It's ugly but will help keep the route out of your table.
>
From what I understand of this silly business, the /32 blackhole route
isn't being advertised by Abovenet and so isn't in the local table at
all.
The /16 being propagated IS, however, and traffic for that host is
following that route via his Abovenet upstream connection (at which
point it's then discarded within Abovenet's network).
I wasn't aware Abovenet were forcing anyone to buy transit from then,
or forcing any of their downstreams to not use filters to block that
particular /16 announcement - is there something in the T&Cs I've not
noticed??
Of course, if Abovenet's policy is so abhorrent, I'm sure when they
lose their last paying transit customer they'll wake up to their
longtime folly ;)
--
Patrick Evans - Net bloke, indie kid and lemonade drinker
pre at pre dot org www dot pre dot org
