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> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:29:25 -0700 (PDT) > From: Sean M. Doran <[email protected]> > The muckslinging here reminds me of the break between [ snip ] > I got a message from an operator people would recognize > that is interesting, useful, and relevant to operations. > > Hopefully the good advice in here won't get lost just > because the author in question is on the "filtering side". I get it, now. It's "pro-filtering" and "anti-filtering". There's no gray area. *sigh* Sign me up for party #3, selective filtering, in the flamefest > "announce ... aggregates [, develop a] sensible policy > [, and acquire] /20's for each location." > > Who can argue with that? Sounds good to me. > Those of you who feel that regional & local ISPs are being persecuted, > please tattoo that advice on your forehead, backwards, so you > can see it reflected in your monitor next time before you > flame on NANOG about how horrible filtering long prefixes is. Muckslinging? pot --> kettle --> black > My correspondent and his or her colleagues will appreciate > the reduction in stomach acids which are not good for any > engineer's duodenum. No kidding. > PS: Well, it's even better if you never announce the > more specifics in the first place, imho, but... Unless, again, there is no alternative. > | > ps - bad cold, hence in for the night bored > | > - -- > | > | if people would just announce their /16's, /20's or aggregates > | > | as well as the specifics it would solve the problem. people don't > | > | understand their allocations then complain to us. > | > | > | > | the obvious case of that is when people get a /20 then > | > | split the /24's into different geographic regions. as long as > | > | they have a sensible policy, the rir will assign them /20's for > | > | each location. No problem with this. Does this mean multihoming automatically qualifies one for a /20? If not, we still have a reason to allow longer than /20. Eddy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <[email protected]>, or you are likely to be blocked.
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