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Re: Blackhole Routes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Thu Sep 30 06:04:03 2004

In-Reply-To: <ce8d903304092923511c2adeb0@mail.gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:01:36 +0100
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> 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?

Have you read the presentation from the Feb. NANOG?
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0402/morrow.html

All the presentation pages on the NANOG website have Merit's
address at the bottom so when I google for this kind of stuff
I use a query like the following to get a shortlist with
mostly relevant pages.

"4251 Plymouth Road" blackhole

--Michael Dillon


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