[74507] in North American Network Operators' Group
Blackhole Routes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abhishek Verma)
Thu Sep 30 02:52:31 2004
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:21:49 +0530
From: Abhishek Verma <abhishekv.verma@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Abhishek Verma <abhishekv.verma@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hi,
There are ways to add static routes that can be blackholed. I can
understand the utility of such routes if those are installed in my
forwarding table. What bewilders me is why would anyone want to
advertise "blackhole" routes using say, BGP?
Is it only to prevent some sort of DoS attacks or are there other uses
also of advertising black hole routes?
Thanks,
Abhishek
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Class of 2004
Institute of Technology, BHU
Varanasi, India
