[3435] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ping flooding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Thu Jul 11 23:07:48 1996
From: Alan Hannan <alan@gi.net>
To: pferguso@cisco.com (Paul Ferguson)
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 22:04:35 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: avg@ncube.com, jerry@gi.net (Jerry Anderson), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199607120258.TAA23467@lint.cisco.com> from "Paul Ferguson" at Jul 11, 96 10:57:11 pm
......... Paul Ferguson is rumored to have said:
]
] 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.
Ahhhhh.... but I'd prefer to flap than have to track down evil
legacy statics.... Dealing w/ flapping is much more
intellectually stimulating :)
I did neglect to mention that fascist null0 static-ing at my
egress points helps to decrease the ramifications of any flapping.
-alan
