[40907] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: multi-homing fixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sat Aug 25 02:50:16 2001
Message-Id: <200108250649.f7P6nUb13800@foo-bar-baz.cc.vt.edu>
To: Steve Noble <snoble@sonn.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:26:52 PDT."
<20010824162652.M65575@tabby.sonn.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 02:49:30 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:26:52 PDT, Steve Noble said:
> And what's small? CNN with a /24? eBay with a /24? Traffic wise they are
> certainly not small, visability wise they are certainly not small, and I'm
> pretty sure no one here will claim that. Yet both annouce /24's out of the
> Classful C space and get listened to (atleast by Verio who is a known filterer).
The Fourth Law of real-world routing table management:
No matter how pure of heart, noble of spirit, and determined to filter at /19,
You *will* end up punching out holes for things like a CNN /24 or an eBay /24
just to make the phone stop ringing.... ;)
