[46747] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Q] BGP filtering policies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Tue Apr 9 19:48:25 2002
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:45:59 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Sharif Torpis <faust@grift.com>
Cc: Jml@ebay.com, "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:35:15PM -0700, Sharif Torpis wrote:
>
> Some folks phrase it the way you did. Others phrase it that Exodus
> has stringent routing policies that prevent customers from doing
> silly things with Exodus IP space rather than obtaining their own PI
> space. Such silly things are detrimental to the stability of one's
> backbone. Permitting such silly things would be nightmarish.
Once upon a time, AboveNet did not permit anyone to announce their IP
space under any condition. I wonder if this is still the case.
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Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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