[8009] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 03/05/97 Internet Routing Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pierre Thibaudeau)
Thu Mar 6 11:00:26 1997
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 10:52:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Pierre Thibaudeau <prt@Teleglobe.CA>
To: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
Cc: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>, routing-problems@merit.edu,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199703061539.PAA19745@diamond.xara.net>
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Alex.Bligh wrote:
> > This is a prinicpal example of why people should be filtering on
> > both inbound & outbound announcements of default & RFC1918 address
> > space.
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> Well we do this (we also filter out some other things we
> don't want to hear from other people), but this set me
> thinking. Is there anyone who actually has a good reason
> to propogate default and reserved addresses through the RA?
> Wouldn't it be a good move for the RA itself to filter
> these announcements (in addition to what's in the policy)?
Alex,
At least in theory, it is. Read paragraph titled "The Routing Arbiter's
Responsibility" in <http://www.ra.net/RADB.tools.docs/radbserv.html>.
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> Alex Bligh
> Xara Networks
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