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Re: AT&T (AS7018) customer triggered blackhole routing?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Feb 9 11:12:58 2006

Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:12:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9828b780602080814n38a49908l60022967fc5ac1cf@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, A Satisfied Mind wrote:

> Does anyone know if AT&T (the old one, AS7018) has customer trigged
> blackhole routing?   I looked in the copy of the BGP policy I have
> from 04/2005, and see nothing about it, and cannot find the updated
> online version.

I really doubt it.  Last time I talked to a couple of AT&T sales 
engineers, they didn't even support selective prepending based on 
communities.  It actually took a while to find one the concept could be 
explained to.

BTW...
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A Satisfied Mind <anti.confidentiality.notices@gmail.com> doesn't appear 
to qualify.

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