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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Using unallocated address space
Here I go being silly again, but how about people take responsability for their own networks and filter properly at their borders? All this talk of how to enforce things is pretty meaningless when you have countless members of NANOG itself half-assing their own networks and complaining about other people's. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Sean Donelan > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Using unallocated address space > > > > On Tue, 13 February 2001, Roy wrote: > > It would seem to me that ARIN and its counterparts should get > together and > > provide a "blackhole" BGP feed (the NBL?) where all packets > destined for > > unallocated, restricted, or private space go bye-bye. > > This isn't very effective because a longer, more specific prefix wins. It > would immediately inflate the route table to its maximum size if > the registries > announced every possible delegation. It is similar to the > problem with people > hijacking addresses. Unless you tie it to filters which ignore prefix > announcements longer than the "authorized" allocation size. > Which brings us > back to the start of this thread. > > If AS1239 and others contributed and used something like the IRR to filter > announcements, the problem is simplier. > > > >
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