[73540] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Homing Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (babylon@egenius.org)
Fri Aug 27 17:52:59 2004
From: babylon@egenius.org
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:50:42 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <20040827190221.GB17044@spectre.wetworks.org> from "Alan Clegg" at Aug 27, 2004 03:02:21 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
No it was because we (Sprint, where I worked at that time) still felt that
it was valuable. The change happened a couple of months after I left. From
what I was told when the change happened, it was decided that it was no
longer more important to do, then the pain it caused, because of
massive increases in router memory, and the ability to do prefix-filters
to clamp down on large eruptions.
jon
>
> Out of the ether, babylon@egenius.org spewed forth the following bitstream:
>
> > Actually Sprint continued filtering for 2 years after Sean left.
>
> But was that because they could not figure out how to turn it off?
>
> AlanC
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