[74534] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Blackhole Routes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Sep 30 17:19:36 2004
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:19:00 -0700
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> If every BGP session in your network is protected by a max-prefix
>> limit, no matter who leaks, the damage will be limited and contained.
> true, also not univeral,
the problem with max-prefix is it does not say *which* prefixes.
so even if the drop-bgp stoopidity is corrected, you could end
up holding the bogus prefixes, not the good ones.
randy
