[81423] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Active BGP Probing and large AS-sets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Jun 9 11:00:06 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@ripe.net>
Cc: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@verisign.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:59:28 +0200
In-Reply-To: <42A85641.3040409@ripe.net> (Lorenzo Colitti's message of "Thu,
09 Jun 2005 16:46:25 +0200")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Lorenzo Colitti:
> So yes, the ASes inserted in the AS-set are operated by others, and yes,
> the announcements are sent out to the Internet at large.
This approach is highly questionable. Any responsible ISP should kick
you off the net for announcing AS path containing ASNs without
permission from the real owner/assignee.
