[8010] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 03/05/97 Internet Routing Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Labovitz)
Thu Mar 6 11:41:33 1997
From: Craig Labovitz <labovit@merit.edu>
To: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: labovit@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 06 Mar 1997 15:39:13 +0000.
<199703061539.PAA19745@diamond.xara.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 11:28:03 -0500
Hi Alex,
Two quick points:
* The RA route servers no longer exist. Around January 1 of this year, the NSF
sponsored route servers were decomissioned. At serveral exchange points, Route
Server services are now being provided by the commercially funded RSNG project
(see http://www.rsng.net). Other aspects of the RA project (including some
research, RPSL, and IRR management/development) have continued.
* The RSNG route servers announce routes according to policy registered in the
IRR. Any routes not explicitly allowed by policy (RFC-1918 routes, default,
etc.) are effectively filtered in announcements to all RS peers.
- Craig
at Thu, 06 Mar 1997 15:39:13 GMT, you 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 Bligh
> Xara Networks
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