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Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Haesu)
Tue Aug 26 15:22:00 2003

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:18:51 -0400
From: Haesu <haesu@towardex.com>
To: Mark Borchers <mborchers@igillc.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <005c01c36bea$f4baada0$d1181e43@Traveler>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> Somewhere in the growth curve along which a customer increases in
> both size and credibility, I think there is a case for migrating
> them from prefix filtering to as-path filtering with a prefix limit.
> While not preventing any possibility of an illegitimate announcement,
> it does prevent a 7007 type incident along with scalability.

a.k.a. the need for some type of automated filtering that scales

-hc

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