[86746] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Issue AS and Subnet Announcment on BGP - Conflict with a major
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alain Hebert)
Wed Nov 16 00:16:05 2005
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:15:33 -0500
From: Alain Hebert <ahebert@pubnix.net>
Reply-To: ahebert@pubnix.net
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20051116050609.GZ12949@dal.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Thanks.
( There is more interesting details but I will reserve myself. (; )
We're already working on making contact with the upstreams, but
you're right I forgot about making more specific announcement.
Thanks again.
Charles Gucker wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:46:35PM -0500, Alain Hebert wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know somebody that is experiencing route flapping for more than a
>>day now and we found out 10h ago that it was due to the announcement of
>>his subnet by a major TelCO.
>>
>> Once that telco contacted, we got the run around for 10h now and no
>>willingness from their part to fix the problem immediately.
>>
>>
>
> Well, a 'normal' solution (short term) would be to announce more
>specific announcements of your address space, then contact said Telco's
>upstream providers to have your prefix filtered from their connection(s).
>A nicely worded (polite) email/fax would go a long way with the NOC.
>
> This is of course, if they are not returning your calls, or as
>you say giving you the run around. I would also try to find a sympathetic
>body at the telco to help to properly resolve the issue, so you can go back
>to announcing only your aggregate netblock.
>
>
>
>> We're wondering what is the proper process to make the TelCo correct
>>their behavior and cooperate?
>> (ARIN Conflict Resolution Process, etc ... We found nothing about
>>this situation)
>>
>>
>
> ARIN will not step in here. They allocate resources, they do not
>police or enforce those resources.
>
>charles
>
>
>
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Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net
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