[3873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Access to the Internic Blocked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Huston)
Sat Aug 24 00:47:09 1996
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:17:26 +1000
From: Geoff Huston <gih@aarnet.edu.au>
To: nanog@merit.edu
The number of transit providers who turn off lsrr is growing daily.
Quite frankly turning it off it simply makes everyones life harder.
The only justification I hear when I question this is a) "this is some
kind of proxy security mechanism for our clients" (really!) or b)
"whats loose source routing anyway?"
Geoff Huston
gih@telstra.net
>To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
>cc: nanog@merit.edu
>Subject: Re: Access to the Internic Blocked
>Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 13:41:50 -0400
>From: "Jeff Young" <young@mci.net>
>
>perhaps if folks would just take the time to loose source route
>in both directions instead of only one...
>
>was the web page in response to complaints to those who turn off lsrr?
>
>Jeff Young
>young@mci.net
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