[50412] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Any people still with old filters?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Griffin)
Sat Jul 27 23:04:48 2002
In-Reply-To: <3D43086F.F27AD044@garlic.com> from Roy at "Jul 27, 2002 01:54:07 pm"
To: garlic@garlic.com (Roy)
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 23:03:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Griffin <stephen.griffin@rcn.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In the referenced message, Roy said:
>
> In a recent discussion with a company that owns a /16 and has it broken
> down further, the statement was made that there are ISPs that filter
> routes at /16 in what was traditional class B space. The example cited
> was Verio. Verio web pages state they don't do this any more (the
> filter is /21).
>
> Is there anyone that still filters routes longer than /8 and /16 in the
> traditional Class A and B space?
>
Assume this is the case, announce your largest aggregates, and reduce
the likelihood of ever having a problem in the first place.
This does not prevent you from advertising additional more-specifics
to entities who have agreed to accept them, nor does it prevent others
from filtering them. In the end, you still have connectivity, and only
those who wish to see the more-specifics, will.
