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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop
Normally I agree with Randy (cough) but: On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Randy Bush wrote: > > Apparently for their convenience Verio has decided what parts of the > > Internet I can get to. > > verio does not accept from peers announcements of prefixes in classic b > space longer than the allocations of the regional registries. Simply put, thats dumb. I can't imagine a technical reason for this (CPU and/or memory), so it must be politcal. > we believe our customers and the internet as a whole will be less > inconvenienced by our not listening to sub-allocation prefixes than to have > major portions of the network down as has happened in the past. some here > may remember the 129/8 disaster which took significant portions of the net > down for up to two days. I believe that if I have a customer who is multihomed between me and another provider, his punch-throughs to the non-address-space-providing provider should be heard. It's called 'global routability.' > the routing databases are not great, and many routers can not handle ACLs > big enough to allow a large to irr filter large peers. and some large peers > do not register routes. There are ways to get around this (as-path filtering, maximum-paths, etc) that aren't as nazi as one would hope, but will prevent stupidity and provide sanity checking. > so we and others filter at allocation boundaries and have for a long time. > we assure you we do not do it without serious consideration or to torture > nanog readers. Heh. > > With no notification. > > verio's policy has been constant and public. But unfortunate. Will they announce a customer-announced /24?
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