North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BGP filtering of supernets out of classful space
John Fraizer wrote: > On Fri, 19 May 2000, Daniel Senie wrote: > > > > > I'd like to see sites which filter provide a looking glass or similar so > > that other providers can quickly and efficiently debug routing issues, > > and also some known place where those providers doing filtering can be > > listed, along with test hosts which can be traced to for testing whether > > there are routing problems or not. > > > > Several folks will tell me I'm dreaming (or smoking something), no > > doubt. > > > > Dan > > Some providers are VERY paranoid about people seeing what their routing > table looks like. I requested that one of our upstreams provide a > looking-glass and their reply was "The LG code requires that we open up > RSH on the routers. No Way!" > > So... > > I wrote looking-glass code that uses telnet. I provided it to the > provider in question. Still no looking-glass nearly a year later. Depending on vendor, you may provide lookingglass functionality over SSH. I feel it's pretty good to be reluctant on openening up rsh/telnet. Wether or not the provider in question want's to publish the information... ... is probably another another question, though a lot of it isn't hidden only by non-providing a lg. mh > > > Oh well. > > John Fraizer > EnterZone, Inc. -- Michael Hallgren, http://m.hallgren.free.fr "If you want truly to understand something, try to change it" - Kurt Lewin (1890-1947)
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