[8845] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: In case anyone hadn't seen this
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Enke Chen)
Fri Apr 25 18:16:52 1997
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 11:42:52 -0700
From: Enke Chen <enkechen@cisco.com>
To: nanog@MERIT.EDU
CC: enkechen@cisco.com
The solution to this problem is filtering, which has been known for
a long time.
The provoders that have been filtering on the customer edge seem to
have done much better in terms of providing sanitized routes. I am
wondering how many such major outages need to occur in order to
convince some providers to do customer filtering?
-- Enke
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> * Subject: In case anyone hadn't seen this
> * From: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
> * Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:41:43 +0100
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> I haven't yet seen this on NANOG - Apologies if it's been there
> 3 times by the time you read this or are one of those who doesn't
> like NANOG used for large scale outage notification.
>
> > >Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 11:44:11 -0400 (EDT)
> > >Reply-To: jun@wolfox.gsl.net
> > >Originator: bulletin@gsl.net
> > >Sender: bulletin@gsl.net
> > >Precedence: bulk
> > >From: Jun (John) Wu <jun@wolfox.gsl.net>
> > >To: Multiple recipients of list <bulletin@gsl.net>
> > >Subject: internet currently is partially down
> > >X-Comment: Global IP Operational Bulletin
> > >MIME-Version: 1.0
> > >Status: RO
> > >
> > >
> > >There seems to be a major problem on the whole internet at this
> > moment.
> > >A network called FLIX (AS7007) is having a major routing
> > malfunctioning,
> > >and seems to have announced all major provider's blocks as more
> > speficics.
> > >(probably because of a classic mistake of redistricute BGP into IGP
> > and
> > >then IGP into BGP while the IGP does not know VLSM)
> > >
> > >This has currently brought SprintLink and UUNET to non-operating
> > status,
> > >perhaps other networks as well that I can not verify without
> > connectivity.
> > >(at the time this email is sent). I just called FLIX and they have
> > >shut down al their peering sessions. The network should stablized in
> > >a few hours.
> > >
> > >Jun
> > >--
> > >Jun (John) Wu | Voice: (703)689-5325
> > >Supervisor - Global IP Systems & Services | Fax: (703)478-7852
> > >Global One Communications L.L.C. | Email: jun@gsl.net
> > >Reston, VA 20196 | URL:
> > http://wolfox.gsl.net/jun
> > >
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