[61212] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Tue Aug 26 05:26:25 2003
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:22:36 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Cc: Haesu <haesu@towardex.com>, Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <A97F9C0C-D755-11D7-9196-00039312C852@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Joe Abley wrote:
> On Monday, 25 August 2003, at 19:08PM, Haesu wrote:
>
> > You ARE correct. If everyone employs IRR and put explicit filters
> > everywhere,
> > it'd be the perfect world..
>
> The IRR is currently a reasonable tool to use to avoid listening to
> routes which are advertised by mistake from peers who populate the IRR
> accurately. It's not a reasonable tool for avoiding maliciously bogus
> routes, since sticking maliciously bogus information in the IRR is
> trivial.
Maybe, however you can fix that.. RIPE for example uses hierarchical
authorisation so you cant add a route on a block you are not allocated, the
broken part here is that the non-European IRRs are not run by the registry and
therefore accept anything..
Steve
