[56222] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP to doom us all
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Pinsky)
Fri Feb 28 17:19:46 2003
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:16:40 -0800
From: Bruce Pinsky <bep@whack.org>
Reply-To: bep@whack.org
To: Jim Deleskie <jdeleski@rci.rogers.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6F0C08B425B2D611ABB40003474D42DF740615@rssesnext.rogers.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Jim Deleskie wrote:
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1009-990608.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed
>
> Seems the BGP will be the down fall of the internet, the sky is falling the
> sky is falling
What a crock of crap. Knowing who someone is doesn't stop them from causing
intentional or unintentional problems. In fact, authentication is more likely
to cause people to become complacent wrt their filtering policies. Hey I've
authenticated that router so it's going to only send me correct routes.
Puleeeaaazzzz...
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bep
