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Re: [Q] BGP filtering policies

  • From: Richard A Steenbergen
  • Date: Tue Apr 09 19:47:45 2002

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:35:15PM -0700, Sharif Torpis wrote:
> 
> Some folks phrase it the way you did. Others phrase it that Exodus
> has stringent routing policies that prevent customers from doing
> silly things with Exodus IP space rather than obtaining their own PI
> space. Such silly things are detrimental to the stability of one's
> backbone. Permitting such silly things would be nightmarish.

Once upon a time, AboveNet did not permit anyone to announce their IP 
space under any condition. I wonder if this is still the case.

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