[3434] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ping flooding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Jul 11 23:03:04 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 22:57:11 -0400
To: Alan Hannan <alan@gi.net>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: avg@ncube.com (Vadim Antonov), herry@westie.gi.net, nanog@merit.edu
At 08:53 PM 7/11/96 -0500, Alan Hannan wrote:
> Vadim,
>
>] 2) Don't Do Any Dynamic Routing Where Only One Path Exists.
>
> Certainly I would not agree with this rule.
>
> If I have a tail router that is down, I do not want to send
> traffic to him, when he is not there to receive it. Rather, I
> would want my intermediate router to reject it right off.
> Furthermore, I do not want to extend nondynamic notification in my
> network.
Alan,
'Tis better to black-hole packets than to flap.
- paul
