[77623] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Am I crazy!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Thu Jan 27 15:05:05 2005
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:01:54 -0500
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: Jason Lixfeld <jason@lixfeld.ca>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <38c4759643970d99666ea9c8946a3817@lixfeld.ca>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 02:51:35PM -0500, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
>
> Good thing this router isn't in production yet, but unless I'm crazy,
> Telus is having a bad day:
>
> *>i0.0.0.0 64.201.161.218 100 0 20161 852 i
It's quite common for providers to advertise default route to
bgp customers.
If you don't want it, 1) ask them to change their config
2) filter it
If you ever get stuck on low memory or having to a
split AS, it may be of value to have default route to hold
things together..
- jared
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