[38255] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: engineering --> ddos and flooding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher A. Woodfield)
Fri Jun 1 16:36:25 2001
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:34:40 -0400
To: Mark Mentovai <mark-list@mentovai.com>
Cc: Geoff Zinderdine <geoff.zinderdine@mts.mb.ca>,
lucifer@lightbearer.com, nanog@merit.edu
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From: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil@semihuman.com>
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Easy...
ip route 127.254.254.254 255.255.255.255 null0
BGP sees this as a valid route, straight to the bit bucket.
-C
> Even if they don't, who's to say what's unreachable? If the NEXT_HOP is
> truly unreachable, in that there is no route to it, the BGP path won't be
> marked as valid and won't make it to the IP routing table (Loc-RIB.)
>
> I've long felt that IP should have come with a provision for an address that
> is never routed. It would be great if we could get something like 127.0.0.2
> for this very task.
>
> Mark
>
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