[50607] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Deaggregating for emergency purposes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Mon Aug 5 18:57:55 2002
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:54:20 +0100
From: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
Cc: Phil Rosenthal <pr@isprime.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0208052344250.27309-100000@staff.opaltelecom.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon Aug 05, 2002 at 11:45:05PM +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> seems a hack. what if they announce a /24 from your space and they mostly have
> shorter path lengths? you still lose...
Advertise the /24 yourself, and 2 * /25, and hope. I had to do this recently,
due to a certain ISP in .au advertising a /24 from our space, and it actually
worked remarkably well. To their credit, the ISP were also pretty responsive
about fixing the problem.
Simon
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