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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Alpha test of MAE filtering capability
At 07:49 PM 1/30/97 -0500, Matthew E. Pearson wrote: > >Or you could just your the RADB Route Servers like a reasonable ISP :) > > Dear Mr. Pearson, I just noticed a message right before this from Stan Barber, directing people to a search engine for NANOG notes. I suggest that you hop on that site and search from something like "default route", "peering" (which ought to be fun to read anyway), and maybe "peering abuse" or something like that. In fact, you may want to browse through the entire site, and become familiar with the last NANOG before you go jumping around and sticking your foot in your mouth. However, you are most likely a busy person, so I'll graciously pass on my thoughts (having attended the most recent NANOG meeting in A2), concerning Mr. Feldman's announcement. During that NANOG, concern was expressed over the ease of abusing the exchange point by pointing a default route at any member of that exchange point. Obviously this only works on an exchange point where any entity can reach any other entity whether or not a peering agreement exists (a feature pointed out by our friends at the ATM NAP's). The solution that Mr. Feldman allows us to at least eliminate possible abuse from non peers. If a peer chooses to commit such abuse, one can just terminate the peering session, a stiff penalty in our current times (considering the increasing difficulty of obtaining valuable peering agreements), and add that entities IP address to the above mentioned filter list on the exhange point switch. We, who were recently a victim of such abuse, will definately use this feature as soon as it is made available. Thank you for your patience while reading my take (and this is only my take) on this subject. Hope to see you at the next NANOG on Feb 10th & 11th. Chris A. Icide Nap.Net, L.L.C. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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