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Re: Alpha test of MAE filtering capability

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Jan 30 21:27:16 1997

Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 20:14:23 -0600 (CST)
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu

>But any reasonable ISP realizes that by using the RADB servers is wonderful,
>but does not come close to preventing an:
>ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 <innocent ISP>

Nor can the route servers tell when someone/something blocks packets
down at the layer 2 level.  Since the route servers are now being paid
by the exchange point operators, maybe there is a chance the two could
be coordinated.  Or at least checked for conflicts?

-- 
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
  Affiliation given for identification not representation

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