[88539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T (AS7018) customer triggered blackhole routing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Thu Feb 9 11:23:23 2006
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:22:52 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602091053530.1846@soloth.lewis.org>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Jon Lewis wrote:
>
> 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.
mci/vzb sales folks as a whole can't explain it either, but we offer it...
I'd suspect if the original poster would have used a more legittimate
email address they might have recieved a directed note back from one of
the several ATT nanog-readers...
(note, of course there are always sales folks that CAN explain these
things, but in general they end up asking a tech person inside their
company... or we hope they do)
-Chris
