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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: AS8584 taking over the internet
> Intent doesn't really matter. The fact remains that it's possible for > someone to screw up the rest of the internet. This doesn't mean that > a quick decision on what to do about it needs to be reached; it does > however mean that a *good* decision on what to do about it and how to > prevent the problem needs to be reached. Look, it think its happened to all of us. Its 4am, your pager goes off and you have a message that someone in Boliva is announcing your /16. Or even worse, its 4am, you just got to sleep and your pager goes off and you announced someone in Boliva's /16. You wake up and fix it. Having strong filters on what routes you will and will not accept from your downstreams is important - so Joe Terrorist or Joe Halfaclue can't screw up and cause you trouble. Generally if the people doing the bulk of the route trading are managing things well this shouldn't be a problem and we'll all continue to live with the possibility that we'll be woken up in the middle of the night for minor and friendly glitches. -- Jason Weisberger Chief of Network Operations SoftAware, Inc. - 310/305-0275 "You may be whatever you resolve to be." -Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
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